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.