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.