User blog comment:Mesi99/What mean the dream than eren see in first episode?/@comment-25179257-20140715102643

Some discussion about the Anime's take on that beginning.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ShingekiNoKyojin/comments/1q4x7n/manga_spoilers_anime_spoilers_episode_1_erens/

This has bugged me for a quite a while as well, they changed it in the Anime slightly with the dream sequence. It seems to indicate that Eren was having memories of other people before the injection we saw. Also one of the things he sees is clearly his mother being eaten, so a dream of the future somehow?

What this beginning and the manga indicate to me though? Really it is confusing as hell lol.
 * 1) Eren is having visions before the injection so he is either older than we think (was a titan before the series started somehow) or is the decedent of a royal family (the visions he has). (I guess or both...)
 * 2) There is some kind of time loop going on, its possible it is related to the coordinate ability. Mikasa seems to have the hair she has now in the manga (shorter) and Eren, in the Anime, see's his mother eaten, dead scouting legion members, toys on the bed, a royal jacket by the fire etc. He is seeing maybe a mix of past and future but its hard to make any sense of it right now.
 * 3) Episode 13 of the Anime drives me nuts, it starts with Eren waking up in Anime Episode 1 - and he wonders why he is there (right before that they show him plugging the hole with the boulder). It recaps the series then when he plugs the hole again he wakes up yet again in Anime Episode 1. This heavily implies a time loop but it seems kind of out of character (or a framing device for the recap).