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.