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.