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.