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.