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.