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.