MYSTICISM

MY PARANORMAL ENCOUNTERS.!!

It was an unforgettable night. It was two days prior to Diwali and festivities marked the city. I was then in mid-twenties and still a bachelor. Being ambitious and with vibrant young blood, I strove hard to reach the top. At the same time, I was flamboyant, easy going and quite popular among my peers. I possessed an unshakeable confidence in myself and the word „fear‟ did not exist in my dictionary, a quality which my friends admired.

At that time I was working for a multinational US based company with their offices in Delhi. My work demanded late hours at the office.

That night started like a usual one.

I came home late and after dinner went straight to my room. It was at the farthest corner totally cut off from the entire house. Around 11.30 p.m., I hit the bed and immediately went into deep sleep. Due to hard and long working hours, I generally had sound sleep.

However, that night, I started feeling restless and woke up in panic. The clock had just struck one.

What I saw in front of me made my blood run cold.

My whole body trembled and I perspired from head to toe.

For the first time in my life, I came to know what fear was.

My room was dimly lit, as light from "diyas‟ placed outside for Diwali celebrations filtered through the window into my room.

In the faint light, I witnessed a black dense, smoky cloud, the size of a basketball, moving from one wall to the other in the air close to the roof. It was spinning slowly and after some time it started progressing towards me as if aware of my presence in the room. Lowering down, it took two or three rounds of my bed.

For a minute I went blank. I was unable to understand what it was and I was terrified. I sat still on my bed.

I could sense that it was just not mere black smoke. There was something more to it and it had some consciousness within it.

After some time, it started revolving slowly around me and encircled me completely. It slowly came extremely close to me.

I wanted to shout for help but my voice failed. I felt choked and found it difficult to breathe.

The black smoke was only a few inches from my face. With great difficulty, I stood up and managed to run out of the room in the nick of time and bolted the door from outside.

I was now on the veranda under the open sky, completely shaken. I didn‟t know what to do; I looked up and took some deep breaths to return to normal. I pondered on my next move.

The first thought which came to me was whether I should inform my parents. Then I said to myself, maybe the object inside the room was a figment of my imagination. Anyway, my parents could not do anything even if that something existed in reality.

I was at loss to explain what had happened in my room. It was certainly not a dream.

My body was still shaking in nervousness and my heart pounding at a fast pace. I kept sitting idly on the floor outside my room for about two hours or so.

I remembered such unexplainable incidents had occurred many a times before, but this time it was happening after many years. I used to experience such unusual phenomenon since the age of eight or nine.

As a child, I used to tell my parents about these incidents, but neither they nor I could understand what was happening to me. After a certain age, I stopped telling them anything and started keeping things to myself.

I made myself strong and started facing them on my own...

Later that night, I gathered courage by telling myself that I could handle the situation, whatever it was, and returned to my room.