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.