I'm in the top story of a two story house. Night. A few lights are burning in the kitchen. I try to turn on another light but it doesn't work. I try another, same thing. Because the night is stormy I conclude that a fuse has blown and only one circuit is still working--coincidentally the one that the lights I was using was on. I decide to go downstairs, where my father lives (he rents the upper story to me), and find the fusebox. I go into the bedroom to get warmer clothes and find the bed there occupied by a mysterious figure wrapped in the blankets. This is unexpected and a little scary. I touch the blankets at the foot of the bed as the first step to pulling the blankets gently off the figure so I can see who it is. When I do, the figure erupts out of the blankets, feet kicking out and nearly hitting my face. I see that it is myself, violent with fear.
I turn to the closet and find a sweatshirt by touch (the sweatshirts are softer and thicker than the tshirts). Returning to the front of the house I find that all the lights are now out, though I can still more or less see in the gloom. The front door opens and my father enters. He seems in a cheerful frame of mind. I tell him that I was just about to go looking for him so that he could show me where the fusebox is located. He walks over to the kitchen table, which is a picnic table, and sits down. I join him there, but before we can talk I see another figure moving toward the front door. He's hard to make out in the shadows, but seems to be an old man. I walk toward him and see that he is also my father, but a shadowy dangerous version. I'm afraid as I approach that he will shoot me in the stomach with a gun. He doesn't, and I return to the table. The shadow father also comes to the table, so that the three of us--me, father, shadow father--are sitting together. The shadow father is silent, but my father says he wants to talk to me about the aloofness between us. There is the sense that he wants to overcome it. I don't know what to say and I turn to the windows where I see that dawn is breaking and light is now streaming into the room. I wake.
