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.