train dream                
     
                                       
                                         
                                         
                                          
               (situation)                
                                          
 you  find  yourself  in   a  rift   -  a 
 clearing, narrow but immeasurably long.  
 to your  sides are walls made  of trees, 
 thick  and ready to swallow you. the sun 
 is nowhere to  be seen,  but  nontheless 
 it is very bright - the air feels  light 
           blue, almost white.            
                                          
 along the  span of the clearing  lay two 
    parallel silvery lines, dark hard     
 metal.  somehow  you  can  see how heavy 
                they are.                 
                                          
 they   emit  a   high  pitched  whine... 
                                          
                                         
                                     
                                         
                                          
                (situation)               
                                          
 youre   at   the  train station,   on  a 
 catwalk  above the  rails. your train is 
 late, or  you  are  late  to the  train. 
 it's a summer afternoon and the  station 
 is  busy, full  of  relaxed  confidence. 
                                          
 you're in  high spirits, although a  bit 
 stressed about  the time,  while  moving 
 up  the  stairs to  your  platform.  the 
 station   is   in  several  levels,  all 
      placed within eachother by some     
    intelligent designer, and full of     
       stairs, elevators, shortcuts,      
 bazaars... you sight your train  through 
 some  glass windows.  it's...  not where 
           it's supposed to be?           
                                          
                                         
                                     
                                         
                                          
               (situation)                
                                          
 you're finally entering the city.  while 
 it is  indeed a  very  high speed  train 
 you're  traveling  in,  the  journey has 
 been  long.  but  it's   about  to  end! 
                                          
 society is growing  denser  around  you, 
 through the windows you see  first small 
 shacks, built of metal  and stone,  then 
 proper  houses  with mortar to keep them 
 together...  who  in  turn make way  for 
    the industrial buildings, the urban   
      maze, protective walls, jungle      
                network...                
                                          
 the  tracks leave  the ground, which  is 
 needed   for  other  purposes.  you  are 
  carried gently, curving upwards until   
 you're moving upward along  the wall  of 
 a  building. it's made of  slabby stone, 
     with great glassless window holes    
 looking out  the  way you  came.  it  is 
           pitch black inside.