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.