Kingdom of Knuffel

Okay, I know what lucid dreaming is. About 80% of my dreams are lucid dreams any more. Don't ask me how I've been able to become aware that I'm dreaming that much, but I do.

But I guess there are things I don't know and if they're part of lucid dreaming or if I'm going crazy even in my dreams.

First: Twice I had a dream where I could feel something in a dream. Not just feeling something soft or hard or hot. I mean, I could tell something was smooth or bumpy or rough. Like I was touching some kind of ceiling texture that was rough on the embossed part and smoothed on the umm...non embossed part.

Second: I had a dream where I mentioned that no one was surprised that I was flying and someone in the dream replied: "That's because this is a dream." Are dream people supposed to know they're in a dream?

Am I supposed to be able to tell textures in a dream? I'm still learning about dreams and what I should be able to do and not do in them.

Anyone else experience dreams like that? Or does anyone know if this is normal?

Sounds normal to me.

I think being able to feel something, like a texture, in a dream is just your brain making you think you feel it in the same way that your brain is making you think you see whatever you're seeing in the dream, or are saying whatever you're saying in the dream, or hearing whatever you're hearing in the dream, etc. I feel some things in dreams too.

I don't usually know that I am dreaming, but sometimes I do.

Okay. That makes me feel relieved. I thought I was loosing it. XD

Nah, that definitely all sounds normal.
Start worrying only when you meet people in dreams that you've never seen before, and then wake up and write out a short bio about them thinking they'd make a good character in a story, and then a month later meet them in real life and find out your bio was accurate. You can start worrying then.

I love lucid dreaming. If you're having an interesting one and know you are about to wake up, sometimes you can even sort of bookmark the dream and go back to it another time, which is AMAZING. Although I get frustrated by the ones where you spend a ridiculous amount of effort learning something in the dream, because of course you don't actually know the new thing when you wake up. I could have spent that dream time doing something interesting like drawing murals on a labyrinth and watching the griffons in the murals come to life and use giant mushrooms as trampolines until they sneeze too hard and turn into tiny winged trolls. Or whatever other interesting dream possibility presents itself.