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.