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.