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.