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.