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.