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.