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.