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.