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.