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.