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.