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.