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.