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.