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.