Quote Originally Posted by dolphin View Post
Actually, you did lose a bit of lucidity. Lucidity is knowledge that you're dreaming, so thinking that something in the dream might be a real intruder from waking life shows a loss of this knowledge.

As for rationalizing the experience, your unconscious mind is still at work when you're dreaming, which can sometimes defy your conscious expectations. For example, your mind can incorporate things that are happening around your sleeping body into your dreams, so given that the dream character only appeared in your room, maybe there was something in your room that was subconsciously disturbing you while you were dreaming.

You did wake up sweating, so the dream character could have very well represented the heat of the room you were sleeping in.
Thanks, your explanation makes sense and satisfies me.