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.