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.