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.