The phrase "dual reality" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where two different realities coexist or are perceived simultaneously.
Example: "In the novel, the protagonist experiences a dual reality, navigating both the mundane world and a fantastical realm."
Alternatives: "twofold reality" or "bifurcated reality."
It is that dual reality that gives Colonel Sassaman sleepless nights.
But others see a dual reality: warlords wearing the suits of statesmen while dispatching soldiers to sully what were peaceful places.
Such is the dual reality that is coming to define the American enterprise in Iraq, a country increasingly divided between those willing to put up with the American occupation and those determined to fight it.
With it will go the strange dual reality for A Clockwork Orange: it has never been a "lost" or samizdat movie such as, say, Jerry Lewis's The Day the Clown Cried, being so freely available everywhere but here.
The accompanying charts illustrate that dual reality, and do so in ways that either the Barack Obama or Mitt Romney campaigns might choose to use if they were producing charts.
On any given night, there are two distinctly, even extremely, different views of the presidential campaign offered on two of the three big cable news networks, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, a dual reality that is reflected on the Internet as well.
Over and over again, the dual realities that American forces face in Iraq appeared.
These are the dual realities in the second month of Lemieux's impressive comeback.
The journey is one of self-discovery for Ms. Gruber as she encounters the dual realities of the Holocaust and the American response to it.
Alaska Senator and Republican Lisa Murkowski announced that she understands the dual realities of gay marriage in America by declaring her opinion on gay marriage to be "evolving".
As the fevered pitch of cries from fans and community for the preservation of 5 Pointz runs up against the dual realities of a crumbling infrastructure and an increasingly desirable location for real estate development, we all reluctantly cede that the writing is probably on the wall (pardon the pun).
