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.