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.