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.