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.