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.