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.