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.