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.