saved by umbrella

I get dropped off by a taxi around the corner of what is supposed to be my house. I'm walking down a really dark alley late in the night and I realize that I'm one street off of where my house is.

I keep walking down this alley though trying to make sure this isn't my street and checking the doors to see if it's mine. As I come closer to the corner, a man comes out and is holding pepper spray. We both get startled by one another and realize we're both being careful about our surroundings. That's when I get out my umbrella and try to look for my pepper spray in my bag pack. Unfortunately, I can't find it attached to my keys and I realize I must have left it at home.
I go around the corner down another street and go into someone else's house. This isn't my house. I tell these occupants that I don't really want to go into my house by myself. They leave the room for a minute and I realize there's someone else in there. They were getting robbed and had either gotten home too early or hadn't left yet. This man comes towards me and I try and yell for help but nothing comes out. I get my umbrella and hit him with it.

He's startled and I run for the door, which is locked. He stops me and tells me not to run outside but I unlock the door anyway and run outside. He's coming after me when I start yelling "Help! Someone help!". The neighbors are right next door and they ask me, "What's wrong?", I tell them the guy behind me is trying to rob the house and was trying to hurt me. They don't seem to panic. I turn around and the robber is talking to 3-4 people calmly. He's trying to persuade them to believe I'm crazy and he wasn't trying to rob the house. Thankfully, 1 of the women knows what he's doing and calls the cops. The cops come and arrest him.

I'm shaken and my boyfriend and his family arrive on the scene. I'm so scared and don't know whether this is a dream or not.

And then... I wake up.