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.