Another Dream About Abusive Children

You told me (”you” is unclear, some kind of partner-observer?) to get rid of all this extra juice we had so I had these two huge buckets of it, carrying it with my hands but sort of feeling yoked, and by the time I got out the doorway this couple walking by with their daughters (one toddler, one infant) said “Hey kids want some juice?” their kids started to drink some.

So I left for some reason I guess I was thinking how it was weird and probably this is not what you had in mind when you told me to get rid of that juice, and being in the buckets, I mean yuck what is going on anyway here I mean what an awkward situation not that I want to tell these people how to parent or anything but encouraging your children to drink a stranger’s bucket juice seems kind of wacky.

Anyway I come back and the older child is hitting the baby with a stick or some stick-like wire with the parents looking on all approvingly and giving tips about classical conditioning? I was pretty much freaking out at this point because I thought somehow this was going to be my fault. Because I am the kind of person who can see some juice-crazed toddler hitting a crying baby with a stick and be like “Oh my god this is definitely something I should absolutely have both foreseen and prevented, and everyone definitely shares this view”.

Next we’re in some police-station-type setting and the kid is being interviewed. She is 4. So the police or psychiatrists or whatever are interviewing her about what the heck was she doing hitting a baby with some kind of wire or something. And she’s giving them all these really highly advanced answers relating to principles of various conditioning techniques. So while they’re trying to do a pretty standard interview they keep pausing to be like, “Really? That’s an amazing degree of positive response to elicit from an infant,” like maybe they are going to take note of this wunderkind’s methods. And I’m like what the hell? I assumed I was going to be in a shit ton of trouble for this and I’m glad that I’m not but this outcome is kind of even worse.