Last night I was struggling to become lucid and a DC walks up and tells me I'm dreaming. I get really excited and jump up and say something like, "Of course I am, it's you, of course I'm dreaming, I've missed you!" Or maybe I don't say "I've missed you," but it feels like it because I'm so ecstatic about seeing him. I jump up and hug him and say, "You need to stop sending these young guys, they don't know what they are doing." I am referring to the previous dream I had which was lucid and the young guy who was in the dream to deliver a message to me. The idea I'm getting at is that the old man has a job to do in my dreams and he's sending other people to help him do the job. The dream ends very shortly after this when I lose lucidity and end up in a new dream.

In the dream I knew this man, trusted him wholly, loved him like a father, and knew he was their to guide me.

When I woke up this was my reaction: WTF was that?!?!?!
My waking self does not know this DC AT ALL!!! I don't even know any real people that this DC would represent. And even if I did, I was lucid and would have know they were just a DC! But this guy was not just a DC to me, he was much more!

It's like my dream self and my waking self have different memories!?! I've experienced something like this before when I re-listened to a recording of one of my dreams and heard myself say something while still groggy and half-asleep that my waking self didn't comprehend.

What is this? Anyone else experience this? Any ideas on it?