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.