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.