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The Hideaway

Morning of October 14, 1968. Monday.

A young boy (who is primarily seen in-dream as Clint Howard as he appears on the television series "Gentle Ben") is hiding from his family and from teachers, and people are continuously looking for him, but no one ever finds him. He has not done anything wrong; he just wants to live his own way and apparently does not like going to public school. He had been living in a special underwater bunker that one can only get to by being 'swallowed' by a mechanical hippopotamus head in a lake. I study the blueprints for his setup at one point as it seems that he somehow built it on his own. I clearly see the head from the side and how a person goes downward through a somewhat diagonal tunnel (past a chimney-like vertical area) into the larger bunker.

This is the original childhood dream journal title. I had also drawn images on notebook paper that came in various colors, mostly noticing the greater distance between the mechanical hippopotamus mouth entrance and how the various parts worked, including something related to rocks rolling into position - the hippopotamus head and front part of the body also working somewhat like a public mailbox concept. What is quite interesting is that part of my dream caused me to think of a game very much like "Hungry Hungry Hippos" which supposedly did not exist physically until 1978, about ten years after this dream (although the hippopotamus head and front part of the body are fairly “realistic” in contrast to the game). However, an online source states that the idea for the game was published in 1967, though I do not know if I had access to that information at the time.

What I can add here is that the boy at times also seemed to be a composite character, a combination of myself (yet not really "me" as I mostly saw the scenario as if disembodied) and about seventy-five percent Clint Howard as he appeared at the time. A "Gentle Ben" episode that had aired on television the night before was called "The Wall That Mark and Tom Built", with the description "Mark has a falling out with his father; Mark takes a job as the guide for a fisherman". The episode of "Lassie" on that same night was part one of "The Holocaust", which was summarized as "A fire rages on a Western mountain range and, despite the efforts of helicopter crews, firefighters, and Lassie, Ranger Corey Stuart is trapped in the inferno. When a rescue team finally reaches Corey, he is seriously injured." Looking at my dream, there were related concepts - the boy lived much on fish as well as there being the idea of being safe from grass fires and arsonists.

Regarding real-life associations, I never had a "falling out" with my father, but it is possible that I felt uncomfortable with certain events at school. In real life, an older classmate asked me if I was related to Clint Howard. This was rather ridiculous in my opinion as we were not even of the same racial background. The only similarity - and it seems to relate to the eyes - is possibly the somewhat Mongolian-like appearance (attributed to Native American features, though many people in the south often called me derisive Asian-based names as a boy) but I really do not think Clint Howard has any significant features that resemble mine.

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