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.