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.