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.