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.