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.