I’m climbing a Ladder that never ends. At times mine is the only ladder, sometimes there are many other ladders that I pass, but they are always just out of reach. I start underground, but pass huge bookshelves and incomplete structures as I climb. I get the strange feeling that I am climbing upside down. I picture the world spinning around me, turning up to down and I get dizzy. I cling to the Ladder and after a few breaths it passes. I continue climbing. At first it was a sturdy timber ladder but gradually it changes to a metal one that clangs with each step. I pass through a fog which makes it hard to know if I am still underground or in fact up in the clouds. I climb through water, coming up in an underground lake. Strange lighting is cast by the disturbed water.
I continue climbing up.