Dream Log: Children

I tend to dream a lot, and of pretty weird things.  I think, though, that they're frequent enough to warrant a label, yes?  Ahaha, time will tell.

Anyways, recently, I've been getting dreams where I'm grown up and surrounded by neighborhood children.  Apparently, in that universe, my brother took a video of me showing him how to make microwave brownies because "Cooking is not that hard, so you should start slowly in becoming less dependent on me bringing you meals."  Something like that.  The video gained popularity with children for whatever reason, and then apparently I kept doing kiddie videos despite stating in that channel's description that I would not make a good role model due to my lack of purity (so true).

What I found kind of startling but also pretty nice was that it was easy to talk to the kids in that dream.  Things like speaking softly and making weird metaphors and connections... those kinds of things have less value as you grow older, I think?  But in the end, they're not that hard for me.  Not as hard as talking to people in my age group, where being loud and making a bunch of pop culture references that are basically giant in-jokes are the cool thing.

During one of those dreams, a kid told me that there was another kid at school being mean to him.  He was the type who didn't really do much with others.  I told him that he was being a Batman, and that he should find teammates, like Robin and Bruce, to help him against the bad guy.  He said, "But what if I be friends with them, and then they are mean to me, too?"  I told him, "Then that's not a Robin.  Robin would never hurt Batman, right? Because Robin likes Batman and Batman likes Robin. So you keep going until you find a Robin to be by your side."

Apparently, an angry mother complained that by stating that Batman likes Robin and Robin likes Batman, I was somehow promoting the homosexual agenda.  These kids were around 5.  I think I said something like, "When your kid says something like, 'I like cookies,' does he mean that he wants to marry that cookie? No, he's saying, 'I think cookies are cool,' or something like that. In the same way, Robin thinks Batman is cool and Batman thinks Robin is cool and your kid thinks you're cool."

I never understand the point of my dreams, and they tend to be rather random.  Even so, I like kids.  A future where I'm surrounded by kids isn't all that bad, even if I wouldn't be able to curse, drink, or be violent as much.