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.