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There was an interesting show on NOVA last night about dreams. It wouldn't offer much insight into your situations, but one thing about it did suggest is that bad dreams/nightmares are the brain forcing us to rehearse our reaction to a threatening situation. Children have bad dreams that are more "primitive"... being attacked by animals, being taken from their parents, etc. These derive from our evolutionary heritage where these were real threats in prehistoric times. Adult bad dreams show that the brain is plastic, and the instinctive, primitive dreams become more sophisticated and often represent threatening or unpleasant modern situations (job, relationships), or actual trauma (car accidents, burglaries, rape). The result of these bad dreams is that the sufferers are actually better equipped to deal with these and similar situations. It's a rehearsal for the real thing.
Woods subconscious would seem to be forcing her to face the emotional impact of her recent breakup in an effort to lessen the effect (not much insight there, sorry). As for LBC, one could read a lot into her fear of being chased and unable to call for support, but if you look at as just an attempt to prepare her to deal with such an eventuality, then it loses some of the threat.
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