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.