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.