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.