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The Witch's Flag

Morning of August 31, 1969. Sunday.

I am possibly in an unknown region of Florida near a smaller lake, though it could also be inclusive of partly distorted memories of areas of Chipmunk Coulee where I had moved from in Wisconsin (though I had lived in Florida before, prior to that first move as well, until around three years of age). There are not many events to document. Regarding this dream, I had written a story (a few versions over several years, in fact), but the later utilized implications were not known at the time of my dream. Thus, my dream was seemingly sending a rather ambiguous message, or so it seemed at the time, if you consider I did not consciously "grasp" the main scenario of "surrender" vs. "stay away from my territory".

As well as the somewhat familiar lake scenery, I am also on the outskirts of town and in a clearing near the perimeter of a dense forest. There is some sort of local legend of a witch living deep in the forest, likely near the center of it. A large shrub has a white flag tied to it seemingly to indicate that the witch claims the forest as hers. It is on the edge of the forest and to the right of a tree.

Later on, the meaning seemed to be different and I got the idea that the white flag meant that the witch was "surrendering" to progress and encroaching property developers. (I never actually see the witch; I only hear friends speaking about her and her flag - and I assume her to be of the "bad witch" type such as portrayed on "The Wizard of Oz".) I probably had already gotten the idea of the white flag (in actual meaning) from a movie or two, but I did not interpret it as such at that time (that is, the "white flag" symbolism itself) with any form of surrender. In fact, again, in my dream, it seemed a bit ominous as a sort of "obvious" visual "warning" to "keep away" - the opposite of the "real" meaning. In short, I always saw this as being rather incongruous or simply as during a time of slower learning processes where dreams are often inherently wrong about real-life associations due to not yet knowing societal associations or certain word meanings. This was not what I would call a longer-term recurring dream, but there were "resets"/repeats on the same night/morning.

Taking one more extensive and honest look at this childhood dream and doing more meticulous research, I have contemplated some other aspects. Some of the imaginative detail seems to have come from the idea of playing golf, oddly enough. (I did not really watch golf on any regular basis, however.) The concepts are changed in-dream, though. The flag as in my dream was similar in orientation as in golf (though with no number and not a pennant as in some cases with golf). You also see people hit a ball into the woods (or just on the perimeter) in some golf games.

The main theme is relative to a perimeter, or barrier (possibly relating to caution regarding the exploration of one's own memories or knowledge). There are many ways to look at it. One interpretation I got years ago related to occultism "surrendering" to consensus or even Christianity or a play on being "out of the woods" (although frankly I prefer being in the woods in real life). Recently I discovered more information that centers on my wife's first birthday (September 13th) in 1969 (by which a different dream had a witch and a crown and had the usual pop culture precognition and synchronicity of that time).

This "barrier" or more specifically defined "perimeter" theme in this way has not been that common in the several thousands of my dreams I have researched. The only other significant one (other than variations on this dream) was the one where I became a werewolf and needed to happily "escape" into the woods in late morning. In both cases, the in-dream forest did not have the association of a precise real location (and in the case of the later one was actually replacing the residential area that was there in reality). The later one was almost like the opposite of this one in some ways. In this one, it was the forest that was ominous and in the later one, the energies of the forest, so to speak, were beckoning and it was the suburbs (and human society in general) that were ominous. This would be considered ironic, which seems to have a place alongside the ambiguity of the misunderstood primary dream of "stay away from my territory" vs. "surrender". After all, a flag typically establishes conquest and ownership, not "surrender" (other than when the white flag is waved).

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