Morning of February 28, 1976. Saturday.

Throughout my dream, I become more and more aware that our Cubitis house has several secret exits for escape should a burglar or other criminal show up in any threatening scenario. At times, I am in the living room watching our small black and white television. There is a point at which I feel or sense that burglars could arrive in our carport. I "remember" two main escape methods as they approach our home. Though I know or sense that my parents are around, they are not directly in any scenario, though I think I see my father briefly at one point, who had been watching part of a wrestling show for a short time while standing.

One method of escape is getting into the bathtub, which then moves down more into the floor in a somewhat elevator-like manner, to be replaced by a duplicate bathtub in a suggested Ferris-wheel-like structure (though much smaller and more simplified). This way, the bathtub I am in does not have to go back up due to the other one immediately taking its place, making the escape less noticeable.

Another method of escape from the house's known accessible rooms is via the television on the table (though which seems more like a cabinet in-dream). A fake television replaces it using an elevator-like mechanism and one can crawl into the fake television where the screen would otherwise be and go down under the house as with the bathtub (though I believe each escape route goes into a different area of our fictional basement - the Cubitis house in reality was a concrete block home with no basement or cellar).

At one point, it is too late to attempt a better escape as the two criminals (unfamiliar adult males, perhaps in their late thirties) are already at the front door, coming into the house. Instead, I pretend to be an actor inside the fake hollow television as the criminals look around. I pretend to be a card player (seemingly assuming a role in the original "Maverick" series from 1957 on) and I am sitting on my knees on the table inside the hollow television and the criminals apparently are convinced they are seeing a "real" television show for a time. I am not sure if I can reach another escape exit while the criminals are still wandering around in my house.

At least part of this dream was inspired by a View-Master reel, which featured Bugs Bunny (though shown as a 3-D plastic model, it seems) who accidentally broke Porky Pig's television and then got inside it to perform for its owner (which shows Bugs Bunny holding a playing card hand in the last frame, apparently implying a scene from "Maverick"). It was called "TV Trouble" (1959) and can presently be viewed on YouTube. There were probably a number of dreams that were partially inspired by View-Master reels, as I had almost all that were produced during that time (including numerous ones from the 1940s sent to me by a relative), enough to fill a small suitcase, and I spent considerable time as a child (regarding total time over the years) looking at them.