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.