tales from an ordinary world

2000-01-21

Dream : model railways as some sort of performance art ? A friend and I were apparently gonna display some little model people (model railway people ?), but I think I'd only just found out, and hadn't had any time to prepare (or maybe I was just slack ?), so I just grabbed some old ones I'd done as a kid and hoped that'd do. Maybe that was what they wanted anyway ? And there was some guy, in a control room just next to us, controlling these model trains on a table in front of us - he'd use an engine to push a carriage (or whatever) off the end of the rails, but by doing it just right, it might come back on some other bit of track. Or not. But it was still pretty cool at the time, in its own little way. Later, some train drivers were talking - "...yeah, but the (...some random drug...amyls ?...) make me feel weird if I take them too often...". Someone with me (Mum ? not sure) says "did you hear that ?" I guess they thought it was newsworthy...

Another dream, also last night - I'm walking through some big maze of those gray metal tubes they make kid's playground equipment from. Lots of kids. I'm having to follow one in particular (why ? Trying to get somewhere ? See something ?). I think "why don't I just step through the bars to catch up ?" but somehow the thought of doing so seems wrong...