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.