Charlie's dream

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Image and sequence of the plane crashing ("Fire + Water")

"The Baptism of Christ" hanging at the wall while young Charlie goes by ("Fire + Water")

In "Fire + Water", Charlie had two dreams about Aaron. They both had religious motifs and dealt with the baby being in danger. This urged Charlie to try to save the child. After the second dream, he wakes up with the baby in his arms. The rest of the survivors find him and accuse him of trying to steal the baby from his mother, Claire.

Both dreams featured Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ in which Charlie's mother and Claire appeared as angels and Hurley as John the Baptist. At the end of the episode, Aaron and Claire were baptised by Eko.

Charlie's first flashback of "Fire + Water" also contains some elements of a dream. His brother receives a Voltron, while he receives a piano. Mr. Pace is seen working as a butcher inside the living room of his house, chopping dolls' heads off with a meat cleaver. (According to the Season 2 DVD [on Disc 7 under Fire + Water : Anatomy of an Episode], this gruesome scene is an homage by the Lost producers to the recalled Beatles album cover art for Yesterday and Today, commonly known as the "Butcher Album".)

Trivia

• At the start of the episode, a painting/print of Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ could be seen on the wall as kid Charlie goes down the stairs.
• In one of the dreams, a plane can be seen crashing in the jungle in the background. At the very moment the plane crashed, a white dove appears.
  • The crash of the drug smugglers' plane also appeared in a dream to Locke in "Deus Ex Machina".
• In the Bible, Joseph is told by angels in a dream that Herod would try to kill his baby (Jesus). Joseph takes Mary and Jesus and they flee to Egypt for two years.

See also

• Dreams and visions
• Charlie's dream on Youtube here