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.