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.