When an unimagined reality wakes you up...

 

Sometimes things happen that make you question your understanding of the nature of reality.

Here is the story of how it unfolded for me and got me interested in the realms beyond the rational material world.

This was many years ago, around the year 2001-2.

In the very early hours of the day, must have been a couple of hours past midnight, I suddenly woke up from an otherwise deep sleep – with a sensation that some intruder had entered our house. Such was the certainty of that feeling that I got out of bed very slowly, taking great precaution not to make any sound.

I tried get a sense of any sound coming from all corners of the house.
When I couldn’t hear anything …I even slowly tiptoed out of our room, without waking up my wife. Slowly moving around the house …checking doors, windows, bathrooms, and any possible hiding places…including the loft!!

Finally convinced that it was just a bad dream…attributable to some of the infamous gastric events that result from carb intake at dinner(!), went back to bed assured that all was well.

Those days my office was a good one hour’s drive from home, so the morning routine used to be hectic. And soon I was driving on my way to the workplace, planning my day ahead as I made my way thru the Mumbai traffic.

As I was passing the airport, and I remember this well, my phone rang. It was my sister from Kolkata.

As a practice I don’t encourage calls while driving, but she rarely calls in the morning.
So curiosity had the better of me, and I pulled the car over to take that call.

“Hello Ash” she says…” GUESS WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT…er actually early this morning ?”

Before I had a chance to make a guess “We had a burglar in our house!” I heard her exclaim.

“..the chap had climbed up the water pipes and entered thru our balcony… luckily we heard him move around and woke up… but he escaped before we could raise an alarm”

I didn’t know what to say… so must have mumbled something like “did he manage to steal anything?”

“well he managed to get away with some money that was in the denim pocket...nothing else, we checked” she was saying with an undertone of relief.

Now it was my turn to say ... “GUESS WHAT!”...and so I narrated to her what had happened at my end.

We were both dumbstruck.

Especially coming from a family of rational independent thinkers this really hit me.

How could this have happened?

Was there a “scientific” explanation for this?

Was this what is called telepathy?

I must say, this was the first time that I opened up to possibilities of “all sorts”. It sucked me into the subject of life philosophies, psychology & “spirituality”.

Initially I was hesitant in sharing this episode with friends – but soon settled down to narrating it to people I felt close to – fully knowing the risks involved.

Of late – the subject of Synchronicity & Meaningful Coincidences continues to fascinate me – and I have become more sensitive to noticing these things that keep cropping up in my life. There are especially a couple of ones I will certainly write about. I have now reconciled to unhesitatingly narrate such things to people as I feel that unless we share our precious experiences with each other – collective understanding of reality might take a long time to dawn on the seekers. 

So here we are...