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.