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.