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.