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.