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.