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.