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.