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.