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.