In a message dated 10/26/98 12:54:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
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> fantasize
>  yourself variously as the chased, the chaser, the gun and the bullet.

This is not what is going on.  A dream is an event.  The issue is to account
for the origin of the elements of the dream as well as for the formation of
the elements into a dream.
A dream is a communication.  Dreams may be communicated from others at the
same time or sequentially and your mind may distort the sender's distortions.
Freud refers to the cognitive mechanisms of metonymy and metaphor when
interpretting but the formation and source of the dream is also important.
Someone sends the messages to you during your sleep and you then dream it.
The elements are not aspects of yourself but aspects of scenes and others.
the last thing you want to do is to start owning the elements of the dreams as
if they are you, you'd go crazy if that was the case.  You have to figure out
who sent the dream elements and maybe send 'em back to their source.