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.