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.