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.