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Originally posted by Oneironaut
There are a lot of times where I know I'm dreaming, but am still drawn to continue with whatever the dream scenario is. For instance, if there is an alien attack, and I know I'm dreaming, I'll go along with the alien attack, feeling the danger as if it was real, but I'd just go along with the situation because I like the adventure more than just waving my hand and making the alien attack disappear. That is still a lucid dream.
However lucidity flickers. If you're in a lucid dream and you're just standing there, looking around at your lucid dream world, and all of a sudden an alien attack happens, it is very possible, indeed common, to get so shocked and freaked out that you forget about lucidity and start believing the alien attack is really happening.
Neither of those scenarios are strange. They happen a lot. I can lose and regain lucidity like 4 times in one dream just because sometimes I forget I'm dreaming, and I'll remember a few minutes later.
Hope this helps.
This happens to me alot too.