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.