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.