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.