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.