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.