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.