 I often get asked you know how often do I lose a dream or you know do I lose a dream every night? And the truth is that no I don't lose a dream every night because when you start learning how to lose a dream you learn the basics right so you learn how to do reality checks you know you learn how to write your dreams down properly start remembering your dreams better. What you'll find pretty quickly is that your sleep quality massively varies or at least for most people it massively varies in terms of your the length of your REM sleep your rapid eye movement sleep which is when you actually have your dreams and the length of your total sleep and so what happens is that you don't always get a perfect night's sleep especially if you track this stuff like if you track it like I do so I use this little aura ring which can kind of measure your um uh like a temperature your movement deep and REM sleep things like that and you know what you find is that it's kind of hit and miss right nobody can lose a dream without fail every single night they try and to be honest there's no reason that you would need to do that okay there's no reason that you would need to have a lucid dream every single night that you try because firstly it would get kind of boring if you just always enter the dream you know exactly what's going to happen you can just control everything and you know it might get a bit boring sometimes it's nice to have like um like a kind of random experience or something you don't expect and Robert Wagon wrote a lot about this in his um one of his books I can't remember the exact title of it but the idea of using the subconscious to kind of surprise you uh and give you messages and show you things that you might not have been aware of otherwise yeah so although I've been a lucid dreamer I've been kind of teaching lucid dreaming for a long time I know I don't lucid dream every single night um and sometimes you know it goes by like a week or two that I don't have a lucid dream and I think that's very normal uh I think if anyone is telling you that they can lucid dream every single night they're either incredibly lucky and unusual or uncommon uh or they're just lying they're just exaggerating or they're having dreams where they think they're lucid but they're not really lucid more than likely they're just lucky or they're lying but don't let that put you off because although you might not lucid dream every night you try even as uh I don't want to say expert because that's the wrong word even as an experienced lucid dreamer when you get to that point you still won't be lucid every single night um just in the same way that you might not remember your dream every single night and I think that's very normal so there's nothing to worry about in that sense but don't let that put you off I'm sure there are many different reasons you might want to learn how to lucid dream so just do it