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.