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.