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.