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.