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.