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.