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.