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.