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.