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.