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.