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.