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.