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.