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.