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.