Totally freaky! Did the figure maintain its degree of seeming corporeality as you continued to wake up, did it grow more substantial or less or stay the same? Did it seem solidly there or was it ghostly?

I have nightmares from time to time and sometimes I wake up and am certain a malevolent presence is in the room with me, but I've never seen it as discretely as you did. I also sometimes wake up in that mental state where one is temporarily volitionless, unable to move, and it feels like someone is on top of me or about to attack me and I struggle to regain control of my muscles and wake up, open my eyes, move damnit, whatever it takes to break the "spell" of the strange presence. Come to think of it, it does seem like you were breaking a "spell" yourself, by clawing the air. Totally freaky!