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.