Shepard's dream in ME3

Agreed, even if people twisted it into IT.

Depending on what background is chosen, Shepard could already be suffering from PTSD. As far as the kid goes. My Shepard didn't care. Sure it was sad the kid went boom with the others on the shuttle, but not enough he would be in my dreams. If anything, I would be dreaming about A/K who died on Virmire. I felt the kid was no more important than the others that were killed on the shuttle. I just head cannon that my Shepard is remembering the time she was at a Led Zeppelin concert

Thank you all for your explanations. What I couldn't understand was the recurrence of the child. I suppose that the appearance of a double of Shep at the very end who burned is the realization that Shep will propably die at the end. No?

I have one of the mods that shortens the dreams, which makes it better.

I think the dreams are part PTSD (which people have no control over, so it could definitely happen to Shep the way it does), but I have an old theory that the dream is also related to Shepard's indoctrination.

From the derelict Reaper mission in ME2, I got a sense that indoctrination is what happens when organic minds are pulled into the Reaper collective. When there is no active Reaper we saw what happened - the survey team ended up sharing and confusing their thoughts and memories before going insane. With an active Reaper, the organic mind usually succumbs and aligns with the Reapers' thoughts and ideas over time (hence the term "indoctrination" and not just "mind control"), before it eventually goes insane, or becomes incapable of independent thought and the indoctrinated individual just goes dormant and dies.

I think the dreams are part of Shepard being pulled into the Reaper collective, but Reapers or the Catalyst (the kid represented) are scared because Shepard's mind isn't succumbing the way other organics, like Saren and Tim, usually do. It is why Leviathan calls Shepard an "anomaly".

I believe he says Shepard "would have" made a great "mom/dad."  Would have is the past tense and that, to me, suggests the dream is dead.  As for my mention of natural parenting, that is why I specifically mentioned a hetero maleShep in my post.  The OP does open up the suggestion of involving LI specifics in the dream interpretation, so that's what I'm going with here.  As I've said many times, it's a RPG so there isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to interpret things... only a variety of different ways to interpret things.  If the game is preaching a "right" or "wrong" morality, then it's overstepping it's bounds as a RPG, IMO.

You're joking, right?

Weren't those dreams happening to Shep because he/she ate some bad sushi?

He/she really must hate having sushi from them.

(ooh, does that Shep a hater?)

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