(2/8/10) attacking a mountain lion; internet during power outage

(Entered in paper journal at 6:30 AM, on B-train into work from Brooklyn.)

Dream #1

I was out in the woods, possibly with a group of people (my family?). It was night. I was thinking (and possibly talking) about the dangerous creatures in the woods. At one point I may either have been thinking about or actually walking around in a large circle maybe thirty feet in diameter, in the blue light of the moon.

A mountain lion (which I may have called a wolf) may have come near me or tried to attack me. I jumped on its back and attacked it somehow, possibly by jamming my elbow into the vertebrae between it shoulder-blades. I was still talking/thinking (as if in narration) about encountering dangerous creatures in the woods.

Dream #2

I was in my room, laying down. I looked up from the head of my "bed" and saw, in the dark, "my dog" (possibly a Cocker Spaniel, like my family's dog had been). The dog seemed to be afraid of something. She scurried away and hid behind some boxes at the corner of my room.

I wondered why the dog would be afraid. I sat up to look at her. I suddenly realized it was dark in my room, even though I always kept the lights on in my room at night. At first I thought that maybe I'd started turning off my lights. But I knew that wasn't so, and that something was wrong. Somehow I knew that a power outage had occurred.

I may have been holding a PDA of some sort, or a mobile phone like a G1. It was turned off. I thought I should check the internet on my BlackBerry to see what it had to say. My BlackBerry, I knew, was battery powered. So I should be able to get some news from the internet. But even if I couldn't get news from the internet, I could at least use the screen for light.