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.