Waking visions and Post-Meditation visions

[BeThereSoon]

I haven't had any personal experiences, but from the knowledge I gained so far, my intuition is that the smokey form is likely a thought form originated from you. When you can "see" into higher dimensions/realms, what you see may be a mirroring effect: what seems to be coming at you is often something (e.g. thoughts) emanating from yourself. If the figure looked scary, it maybe a reflection of your fear. When you let go that fear, the entity left as well.  -- just my guess.

Considering at the moment my main goal was to cleanse my root chakras as much as possible, I wouldn't put it past me to bet your answer is spot on. After putting together certain synchronicties and blatantly obvious signs implying I need to work on my "foundation" the thought even crossed my mind last night that my fear is stemming from my subconscious which believes something or someone is always out to get me.
My heart absolutely drops every time I see a cop behind me even though I'll have nothing illegal on me (I was frequently in legal trouble when I was a minor, and decided what path I want to follow when I discovered LOO). I believe this fear is something I need to get over in order to further my journey but what's crazy is I NEVER CONNECTED THE TWO. I never would've thought that the entity I saw was a thought form originating from me to help me let go of that fear. Thank you so so much