I want to acknowledge Bromden's dream because I think it is extremely telling. Although it is clearly a nightmare in combination with his hallucinations and paranoia, if we can sift through the craziness, it tells the reader alot about his own feelings and the combine. Bromden is showing slight sign of emerging out of the fog by not taking his medicine for the first time in years. Also, the entire dream he relates the ward and everything in it to machinery---the hospital is a mechanical slaughterhouse. Throughout the dream he talks about the fog protecting him from being seen and he says, "I hope [McMurphy] knows enough to hide in the fog" (75...your 70ish). Bromden clearly likes McMurphy and wants him to be safe. What he has not put together yet is that McMurphy is not afraid of the ward or the people. But the most important part of the dream is when he suddenly feels exposed and vulnerable. While the reason behind his fears seems to be castration anxiety, he feels McMurphy pulling him and the other patients out of the fog where they will be "easy to get at". he feels vulnerable to the staff and due to his hallucinations, he feels vulnerable to the machine and the combine. In the dream he thinks the ward is a slaughterhouse. While the slaughterhouse murders humans, the ward murders humanity.