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I suppose I could have attached this to the "confronted my mother" thread, but I like the title. 
Although my mother still hasn't responded to my confrontation, my brother has been discussing it with me. As part of the conversation, I mentioned that I had a recent dream that I was a child, happily playing with my pet alligator (a grown one, not a baby) while my slightly distracted mother went on about her chores, oblivious to the danger I was in, saying and doing nothing while the alligator "playfully" bit the child. Brother pressed for details, and I told him that yes, the alligator was biting the child and it hurt slightly, but the child didn't have any other pet, so she ignored the pain and continued to play with the alligator. Although the bites did not injure the child, the dream seemed to say that the bites would get worse, and that the child would one day be seriously injured. The child actually wanted the alligator there, because she wanted *some* type of pet. It didn't occur to the mother to get the child a puppy, but instead the mother tried to make an alligator play the role of a puppy.
Brother is trying his best to get me to see that this could be a picture of a mother gathering food, secure in the knowledge that her child is happily playing with her pet. He seems to be overlooking the fact that the pet is an ALLIGATOR and should not be allowed anywhere near a child! Well, he discounts the alligator part, reasoning that as long as the child wasn't actually being dismembered and was happy playing with the alligator, everything was OK. Apparently he had been visualizing a stream where the alligator lived, and the child went to play with it, but I told him no, the alligator was in the living room of the house. (Where alligators don't belong?)
I think this is a beautiful illustration of what is going on here. The child in danger, with the mother oblivious to the fact. And now, outside the dream, the rest of the family trying to convince the now grown-up child who had been allowed to be alligator bait that it wasn't so bad.
Although my mother still hasn't responded to my confrontation, my brother has been discussing it with me. As part of the conversation, I mentioned that I had a recent dream that I was a child, happily playing with my pet alligator (a grown one, not a baby) while my slightly distracted mother went on about her chores, oblivious to the danger I was in, saying and doing nothing while the alligator "playfully" bit the child. Brother pressed for details, and I told him that yes, the alligator was biting the child and it hurt slightly, but the child didn't have any other pet, so she ignored the pain and continued to play with the alligator. Although the bites did not injure the child, the dream seemed to say that the bites would get worse, and that the child would one day be seriously injured. The child actually wanted the alligator there, because she wanted *some* type of pet. It didn't occur to the mother to get the child a puppy, but instead the mother tried to make an alligator play the role of a puppy.
Brother is trying his best to get me to see that this could be a picture of a mother gathering food, secure in the knowledge that her child is happily playing with her pet. He seems to be overlooking the fact that the pet is an ALLIGATOR and should not be allowed anywhere near a child! Well, he discounts the alligator part, reasoning that as long as the child wasn't actually being dismembered and was happy playing with the alligator, everything was OK. Apparently he had been visualizing a stream where the alligator lived, and the child went to play with it, but I told him no, the alligator was in the living room of the house. (Where alligators don't belong?)
I think this is a beautiful illustration of what is going on here. The child in danger, with the mother oblivious to the fact. And now, outside the dream, the rest of the family trying to convince the now grown-up child who had been allowed to be alligator bait that it wasn't so bad.
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