Two men chase me. I run back in through a doorway (like a trap doors). It leads under the porch of my childhood home. The one caught me by the ankle. Instead of geing pulled out, I pull him in. The two of us are inside together. Then the other one, I don't know... I don't see him anymore. I decide to fight. (I fell strong now.) I grab him and throw him down. I say something to the effect of, "Let's have it out!", intending to fight him until this thing was solved. He doesn't want to fight. When I get him down, I say, "What do you want?". [I remembered to confront and here I remembered to ask rather that struggle without knowing what the conflict is.]

I think I know at this point that this is a part of myself. I think that, when I asked him what he wanted, that I said something like, "You came into this dream. Now here we are face to face now, let's have it... What do you want?", but I never came it seems to the conscious realization -fully, at least- that I was in a dream, having a dream.

He says, almost whining, something like, "Well, like, I don't know... I just want to drop the whole thing and leave.". So I lighten up and tell him to go and that if he ever feels the need to say something or whatever, to come back and talk. I think it is then that he says something like, "I just don't want you to call me an asshole.". I apologize for hurting his feelings. Then I woke up feeling all happy about how I had handled that i.e. confronted the one who was chasing me and "put him in his place" I walk out to the den and the refrigerator and then I realize that I had the wrong thing! He wasn't a "top-dog" at all! He, once I confronted him, showed all the signs of the classic "under-dog". Ops. (Terms I learned from the excellant dream interpretation book, "The Dream Game".) Well, at least I know what he wanted and I didn't hurt him. But I think that I have made a real lot of progress in dreaming already. (There is also some thought here that someone was right, there was some danger of catching disease.) [Then the phone rings and wakes me up for real!

[The first time I had only dreamed that I woke up! -an interesting dream trick. Although this is not the first time this effect was used.]