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Cat o'-Nine Tails and Willow o'the Whip

Morning of February 15, 1975. Saturday (a day after Valentine's Day, which seems related).

Like a lot of my dreams (especially when looking just a tad deeper) this one had intriguing word plays as well as layers of apparent long-term precognition as is often the case (when the precognition is far more impersonal or only indirectly related to my real path) - which is oddly foreshadowed by pop culture references as well (and I have not been the only one to notice this - there are a lot of articles on this phenomenon).

The setting of my dream seems to be some sort of modern "castle" but is actually a distorted version of my brother Earl's house during the time he lived in Cubitis several houses south of us on the same side of the highway. My mother would sometimes walk down to get a ride into town when his wife was going to work at Tinsley's IGA store.

The house has a smaller fictional room on the west side (in what would otherwise be the front yard), connected to the main hallway, but where there is only an outside wall at that point in reality (but which eventually leads to the large living room at the north end of the house - it was actually a bit similar to our house). There is a fictional character who seems to be a variation on the "mystery girl", who is a witch, and who goes by "Willow o'the Whip" (or "Willow of the Whip" - meaning that she uses a whip). She dresses a bit like the Heidi character (from the infamous Heidi Saha poster and magazine) but is not her and seems a bit older as well. This is a distortion of a real-life phrase regarding eerie swamp gas sightings, known as "Will-o'-the-wisp" (or variations thereof), which I incorrectly wrote in my childhood journals as "Willow-the-whisp" (could not spell back then, either). On a side note, there was a rumor that the Saha magazine was published and then recalled and destroyed because of its "scenes of torture" and exploitation of the model (which I think got confused with the model kits related to the ads from Warren magazines, which actually did have a miniature torture chamber). I guess people will believe anything except something that makes any sense. (How do you "recall" a magazine that was already sold and read, by the way? It's not exactly like food or a defective product.)

At any rate, there isn't much drama or interaction. I am aware that a "sacred" whip exists and is kept in this special smaller room. For some reason, when the door is opened, a mist flows in. The whip is a cat o'-nine tails (which is written at least a couple different other ways). There is also something about getting Valentine's Day candy - a white heart-shaped box tied with a red ribbon. The "mystery girl" gives this to me. The whip supposedly has magic powers along the lines of a magic wand (or relative to Wendy the Good Little Witch's magic wand, it seems).

At one point, the whip seems to be missing and I am very annoyed and seek it out. There is also an idea (or a possible in-dream "reset") that the room was actually like a vault at a bank, when regarding the whip as a rare and magical treasure.

Again, as with a lot of my dreams, there are numerous layers and even Pascal-Triangle-like constructs. For example, some associations (as well as nine of "cat o'-nine tails" being "my" number as "Yang"):

Willow was associated with a female witch, whereby, much later on, a witch named Willow was on the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", based on the movie from 1992. There was also a completely unrelated movie relating to witchcraft, called "Willow" from 1988 (but which was the name of a dwarf). This was during the time when I first started having my mystery-girl-based panic attacks in public (and almost passed out in the theater when seeing this movie - not sure why) which stopped just shortly before I saw the PAIA ads in 1991 (and was precognitive to several dreams) and worked out the "mystery girl" was a real person all those years (since earliest childhood, in fact - thousands of layers coincided over a lifetime, including the exact location I used to "stare at" as a boy from the other side of the ocean) - and thus we married in 1994.

Still, another layer relates loosely to a relative/ancestor due to the fact of a weeping willow being on his tombstone, though this was fairly common according to resources - I just did not know it at the time. It was also loosely related to the fact that he was supposedly kept in a “dungeon” (or at least underground or a “prison pit” or whatever) and supposedly whipped by someone called Proctor according to my father. According to one website, he was “appointed Major of the Second Regiment in place of Lewis Bond, declined.”

In my dream however, I did not associate the whip with anything negative, and again, it was supposed to produce a form of magical energy when swinging about in the air. I also used a whip (on the ends of silver oak branches) in real life as a teen and it put harder muscles in my arms then when weight-lifting.

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