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.