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.