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.