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.