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.