User blog comment:Suparockr/List of Plotholes throughout the series/@comment-166.82.245.89-20120719070005/@comment-4950455-20120723213240

Ignoring the indoctrination theory for the moment

Or hopefully forever.

But seriously, I agree with what you're saying. It's pretty clear what the writers were trying to do with the nightmares and that kid. The issue is that it was very poorly executed, not that it was really hard to understand.