While updating my dream journal i had an idea, about the existence of dream charcters.

Now i'm not very experienced in dreams, so what i'm saying maybe totally off here. But i find it hard to believe that I could have the ability to create someone I've never seen before and with vivid accuarcy. including personalities, charcter flaws, ect...

My question... Is it possible these people are simply recreations (slightly altered in appearance) of people you've seen in your waking life, with personalities you'd assume they would have. Somehow subconsciously remembered yet forgotten by the active brain?

(stranger idea) Is it possible that they are real people, somehow sharing a dreamworld with you? they sometimes seem to be totally independant from your world and are doing their own thing. I don't know too much about dream charcters and know even less about dream sharing. which is why I thought i would ask you all.

Is it possible that they are real people? which may explain why sometimes you meet people, you could've sworn that you've met or seen before?

opinions, answers, slaps to the face for stupidity?