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.