TOW
             
Dreaming; Night of
February 18, 1984

       9:50              Several dreams with same basic theme: fighting bad guy(s). In first, I discovered a mad murderer/scientist-type and had to subdue him. He had a daughter whom I had to convince of his guilt. Somewhere in here, a bunch of good guy/innocent bystanders were caught in the crossfire in a burning field, including me. In the second, I was escaping from someone. I ran quickly around many corners in a brand new subdivision trying to elude my pursuers. The subdivision was made up of neat houses, and I picked one and went inside to hide. Being new, all of the windows were uncovered, so I tried to cover them with various things so that my pursuers could not just look in and see me while passing by. Shortly after I got settled in here, a woman came through the door with groceries—I'd picked an inhabited house. We got along, after a bit, and this is all I remember of this particular dream-part. In the third, a gang had done something, and I and a few others were trying to track them down. Several times we would come across a couple of the gang's members and there would be a good fight, which we would win. Finally, I deduced their location—a room in a fancy local hotel—and made my way there. I think that they may have held hostages or something there, perhaps friends of mine. I was discovered, captured, escaped and made my way to the outside of a part of the building that was still under construction. I lost most of my pursuers, but as I dropped to the ground via a scaffold ladder, I was again cornered by one of them. I don't remember what occurred next, but later reinforcements arrived and we cleaned them up. There were a lot of details in these that I've forgotten and are, thus, not written here. (H)