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.