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.