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.