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.