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.