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.