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.