When you're having a normal dream, you don't consciously have access to your waking memories. When you become lucid, your brain "reactivates" these memories and you can remember what you were doing, any goals you had, etc. which makes the difference between a lucid dream and a non-lucid dream.
It's not known exactly how your brain does this, but when you're in a normal dream and you don't have complete access to your memories, your brain likely mixes and matches information it has, like emotions and people. This can create dream characters and feelings towards those DCs despite you never even knowing them, nor them symbolizing anyone you know. Basically, the DCs are just random people your brain fills your dreams with, and your brain then attaches emotions to these characters to make them more convincing. Then, when you become lucid, you regain conscious access to your memories but also still have the memories from the dream that your brain "made up." Then it gets kind of confusing, since your dream world and waking world kind of collide, but it's not that your waking self and dream self have a different set of memories, it's just that they're presented/stored differently.
This is all just my take on it from my experiences, so none of it is concrete proof, but it's most likely just your brain "creating" DCs and making them realistic. Then upon attaining lucidity, you mix both worlds. Don't worry about it, it's all completely normal and it's not out of the ordinary. I actually just had a LD last night in which I had a GF and was very close to her, despite not knowing her from anywhere.
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