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.