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.