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.