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.