Hi CoryRage619! Well, lucid or non-lucid, I'm glad you got justice on that abusive dream figure! High five!

Well, do you encounter this each time you dream? If so that might be a good chance to mentally prepare what you will do. And maybe set an intention that next time you're lucid, you'll be prepared, in case this dream figure appears. Such as by creating a plan of action. Maybe you could get ready to freeze him.

Abusive people tend to have a history of being abused themselves. Even though they seem cruel and heartless, they weren't born that way. They had to have had some mean parents, or mean siblings, or some other source of meanness being done to them. So with that being said. If you can stay lucid when you see him. And if you felt safe doing so. You could actually attempt to help him recover the part of him who isn't abusive. I believe there is always a light in everyone, but it can be buried beneath layers of defense mechanisms.

On the other hand if you wanted to you could use some kind of giant energy blast and disintegrate him. Or teleport away to where you want to go. But I guess having a plan of what to do if this should arise in a dream could help.

I for one miss my most emotionally charged dream signs 99% of the time. I will wake up and be like, ah, well, maybe next time. I actually have an abusive relative that appears in my dreams. But I don't become lucid. I've thought about it and I'm not sure what I'd do if I did. Run away? Turn him into a harmless statue? Try to make peace? So I guess it will happen when I'm ready. But in your situation you handled it well even without being lucid. I've noticed that in my dreams too. My non-lucid dreaming self handles things better now in dreams, without even becoming lucid.