Most likely they knew how they looked in the dream and went to the bathroom IRL and got startled because the “dream version” was different. With these dreams, it’s like that episode in Rick and Morty about the “Roy” game - living a life in VR that you believe to be 100% real.
Edit: and it bleeds over to reality for like 10 - 15 minutes
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Most likely they knew how they looked in the dream and went to the bathroom IRL and got startled because the “dream version” was different. With these dreams, it’s like that episode in Rick and Morty about the “Roy” game - living a life in VR that you believe to be 100% real.
Edit: and it bleeds over to reality for like 10 - 15 minutes
Oh alright, I had missed that this was outside the dream.