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.