Talk:Round One/@comment-216.223.27.22-20151026174645/@comment-4010415-20151026183935

Yang had a photograph of her mother, so yeah, I'm pretty damn sure she knew what her mother looked like. She may have even been wearing her battle outfit in that photo. So, Yang would've been able to easily figure out that the masked woman must be her mother.

The visual effects and music definitely suggest it was just a dream. Yang was not randomly wandering Beacon campus in the middle of the night. She said she was going to get some sleep (as did the rest of Team RWBY), and then we saw that scene.