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.