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"The War on Brenda W"

Morning of April 4, 1971. Sunday.

A paperback western novel which I read as a young boy and later as a young teen, called “The War on Charity Ross” (by Jack M. Bickham), had influenced a new dream in it becoming “The War on Brenda W” (a female classmate - full name in title in my own journal but not shown here) in altered title only (without any of the novel’s scenarios). It mostly involved best friend Toby T and me “fighting” over Brenda in a sort of comical-type “movie”, but yet with a slightly menacing adult-oriented nature unusual for a child’s dream at the time in my opinion and implying marriage of the victor to Brenda.

A few scenes mostly only involved in-dream versions of games “Duck, Duck, Goose” (the most vivid and dominant scenario), “Red Rover”, and “Red light, green light” and chasing each other around in circles, simply trying to catch Brenda. She does not seem as extroverted here as in real life or in other dreams. The location was also of an area I rarely dreamed about, being the northwest area of the mostly featureless school grounds on the other side of the main building.

This dream was unusual for me (other than likely being influenced somewhat by the novel), in that I always found the concept of “fighting for a girl” to be atrocious in the long run. Either a girl is going to like someone (by her own wishes) or she is not. The male that “wins” in a fight between them (especially when the girl already does not like one of them at all, including perhaps the would-be victor) is a ludicrous concept in my opinion, even from my viewpoint as a child, especially in westerns that I had seen, as well as still seeming a part of modern mainstream society with some mindsets. That may be why this dream (or any later version either) does not have a definitive ending.

There are also some other ways to look at this. As Brenda was a proven alternate archetype for the (precognitive) “mystery girl” (wife-to-be) in most cases, there is also the well-established swan connection when considering it started out as a “duckling” (relative to “Duck Duck Goose”). My dream also features the act of going around in a circle which brings to mind the vivid tornado vs. merry-go-round scenario, which I considered a very important childhood dream - thus there is a very subtle Yin and Yang relationship here as well and possibly even a rather subtle “goose that laid the golden egg” association.

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