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Rabbit Island Visitor Smothered By Bunnies (VIDEO)

SMOTHERED BY BUNNIES

Well, everybody has a dream.

Being covered in soft, fluffy bunnies just might be a lifelong for fantasy for this visitor to Japan's famed Rabbit Island.

In any case, as this video -- which has racked up nearly 300,000 views since being posted on YouTube earlier this year -- suggests, there's a certain comfort in the rabbit mob.

Our happy tourist appears to feed the little furballs strategically until he's covered head to toe in them.

And where can like-minded enthusiasts find the fabled 'Rabbit Island'? While Rabbit Island (Usaga Jima) is this pearls moniker -- thanks to the hundreds of wild beasts that call it home -- the place is officially called Okunoshima.

And it never started off so sweet and cuddly.

Indeed, Okunoshima was once home to a secret military facility that churned out toxic chemicals like mustard gas for World War II.

The ancestors of these creatures may have served as lab animals, the targets of unspeakable testing, Amusing Planet writes.

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Ōkunoshima: 'Japan's Rabbit Island'

Ōkunoshima: 'Japan's Rabbit Island'

Their liberation from the Imperial Japanese Army, apparently spelled freedom. And free love.

The rabbits have reportedly overrun the island. They're known to swarm visitors with love -- or a keen desire to eat whatever tourists are lobbing at them -- holding no grudges for ancestral wrongs whatsoever.

Here's another example of their enthusiasm from earlier this year:

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