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.