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.