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.