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.