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.