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.