The self that dreams has never needed your permission to act out of character.

Your dreaming self does things you would not, feels things you have not admitted, and holds none of your rules. It uses your material without asking, which can leave you disturbed by your own night as though it were evidence of something. What it mostly shows is that the self is less unified and less governed than daytime suggests.

A dream is not a verdict and it is not nothing. If one keeps returning, it is worth asking what preoccupation it is working with rather than what it is accusing you of. And a single strange dream deserves no weight at all.