Congrats!

You wanted it to be more realistic and you got it, that's pretty much it and there's nothing wrong with that.

As for waking up, the reason the world looked strange would be maybe because you had hypnagogic hallucinations, i have similar experience almost often when i wake up from my naps, i start seeing bizarre stuff around for like few minutes.
Were you feeling dream body and waking life body at the same time? In this case whatever you feel from waking life body might as well be changed in dream and be part of the dream in some way.

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