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.