Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Another disturbing dream :(

My mom and I were shopping for a new pair of sneakers for me. Then we took a swim in an extremely dirty body of water and talked. She asked if Hokie and PJ were planning on going to Egypt again; I said I didn't think so any time soon. We then saw a little boy who was semi-famous for being the only "normal" victim of something called "Shotgun Syndrome" or "Wellington's". Apparently this is somewhat like PTSD, but happens in children and causes aphasia. People with it usually cannot speak in full sentences, but rather put together words and short phrases. At this point there was a scenery change and we were either watching a documentary on TV or we were actually talking to these people. There was a cute little blonde girl, maybe 4 years old, who supposedly suffered from Shotgun Syndrome caused by a traumatic event. The subject of discussion was the fateful day on which she was attacked while playing on her backyard swingset. The girl, trying to talk about the day when she got her new swingset, said "We paid swingset 500 dollars." She kept saying it in different ways: "500 dollars we paid new swingset." To me, it didn't seem like she had a speech problem, but that she was talking like young children do... but whatever. Also, this was a very small, simple swingset and I would hope that it would not actually cost $500! Anyway, then her parents were sitting near the swingset and we saw flashbacks of what happened that day, which made no sense whatsoever. So the girl was swinging and her dog was nearby and this middle-aged woman came up and asked if the girl minded the woman and her dog hanging out in the backyard. Kind of creepy, and where were the parents? The girl said OK and kept swinging. Then there was a bed near the swingset and the woman's dog viciously attacked the girl on the bed. The girl's dog came to her defense and basically the dogs fought on top of her struggling body. The parents arrived then, but could not get her off the bed for some reason, and when they did, she was naked and covered in huge wounds: bruises and what looked like 3rd-degree burns. They took her to the hospital, where the doctors told them that they should brace themselves for the possibility that their daughter had been raped. (Who was the rapist?!) They bemoaned this awful situation, wondering how they would explain to their young daughter what rape was. "Apparently a lot of people rape young children," the mom said, distraught. "We don't like these people."

WTF?

Btw I already googled Shotgun Syndrome and Wellington's, neither of which is a real affliction. My brain is super creepy.

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