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.