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.