When I dream, often times people from my life are in the dream, and I automatically accept them as being who they're supposed to be. But then when I wake up, I realize that they looked nothing like the real person. Problem was, I couldn't recall exactly what the dream-friend looked like.

It wasn't until one of my first low-level LDs that I was able to closely examine my dream-friends. It was very strange; some of them were animals, some looked like strangers, and some even looked like other different people that I knew.

My assumption about the explanation was that probably that person looked in the dream like an extremely exaggerated characature of their real self. Maybe my sub-consious' projection of them?
What do you think?