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.