by Pankaj Ogra
Suddenly, I felt the plane was not going down anymore, rather, it was floating straight. So I visualised another future where the other passengers and I were getting out of the plane safely.
Life had been very difficult for me, as it is for any human being. Everyone has their own destiny to fulfil, and accordingly, they have their life designed. That is how despite living in the same planet, we have different lives. We go through different expereinces although there are many people who are born at the same time and sometimes, even in the same place.
I had a big dream to fulfil. I could not die in unforeseen circumstances. I had never faced something like this before. I design my life, and it doesn’t end today. The voice came from within.
We experienced a great shock and turbulence; we were even threatened by a huge sound. For some, it was the sound of death. I was still wondering what this was.
Suddenly, I opened my eyes and found myself on the same mountain I was on earlier. And surprise! He was already there. But unlike last time, there was no window and no toilet scene. I just woke up here.
Come on! This again?!
“So nothing happened the other time, it was just a bluff.”
“This time, the plane is going down, and you called me here.”
“Who am I to call you? You are your own boss. Even I am your creation.”
“What do you mean?”
“I am the manifestation of your thoughts and always remain in the back of your mind. The last time you asked me to appear in your dream. And all I did was execute your plan. Well, this time I have come to tell you that what you used to see in your dreams about the world being destroyed has a meaning to it. You will soon realise that.”
A riddle again.
“So am I alive?”
“Yes, you are, and as you planned, all the others are too. You landed on the sea.”
“But how?”
“Miracles happen. The winds can blow from any angle depending on the time.”
“I get that, can I go back now?”
So now, what was this game?
I came back to the plane and realised we were hanging upside down. I looked at my fellow passenger at the window. She was alright, smiling at me hanging downwards. This was the first time in the entire journey she had taken her face away from the window.
I understood we were not dead. We had survived. It was a feeling of joy and happiness, but above that, a learning.
Suddenly, I heard a voice. A passenger was saying, “It has been the most exciting as well as the deadliest experience of my life, but we survived this, and I don’t know how. Maybe the day is not decided for us to die.” He cried and yelled in joy, “I will see my child now!”
“The emergency services are on their way. We will try to help everyone,” said the crew. A sudden feeling of happiness went through the plane. Everybody was yelling, and some found it hard to digest the fact that they were alive, so were crying.
How did this happen? Did I do this? Even if I did this, what does all this mean? Was it just to convince me about the power of belief? What was happening?
A part of my consciousness kept appearing at any given moment to scare me and then he took me to old places from the past. Did my creation, imagination, or thoughts of the future actually save all the lives today?
Someone opened the doors of the plane, and a team of people came inside the plane. They helped people remove their seat belts and took them out one by one. I got off and walked with them towards the door.
I reached the door and looked outside. It was a mess. All I could see was lot of boats with rescue teams and medical teams. So we had landed on the sea. I took the slide there and boarded the boat.
While boarding the boat, I looked at the plane and remembered the whole scene. I couldn't believe that we had survived, from the looks of the plane. It had one engine burned and the other missing. Part of the right wind was gone. The tail was gone, and front was slightly opened up due to the collision.
There was medical help on the shores. They gave us water and comforted us saying everything was all right; there were also psychologists available to pacify us at our current states and to help motivate us. It was a big crash and many people were terrified. They took us to a hospital for a full body check-up. I made calls to my parents and a few friends so that they knew I was ok.
I took another flight the next morning and went to see my parents. We had a long discussion about how things turned around on the flight, but I didn’t mention my true experience yet, as it would have sounded odd to them. But I did share a a few with my mother who always tries to understand me.
The next day, I looked at the mobile pillar from my house and I recalled all the conversations I had. It was truly a learning experience and a memorable incident.
Life on the swing
It was around 12 in the night. I was with myself as usual. I was sitting on the terrace wondering what was going on in my life. I believed you didn’t meet and love people coincidentally. There is always a reason behind it. They are already connected to your soul, and the day comes when they come close to you through some means and the mutual bond between you both is closed.
I had a telescope with me, and I was looking at the stars in the midnight sky. While I was busy doing so, I saw a burning object. I was amused to see it burning, and then, I recalled my physics and observed that this structure was burning from the outside due to friction, as it came in contact with our atmosphere.
I thought about how lucky I was to see such an occurrence like that from my house. Anyway, I thought I would watch the rockets flying in the sky, it was a little on the other side, but still, it would be interesting. So I started focusing my lenses on this particular object, as there was nothing else interesting in the sky now. I figured that this object was more of an oval shape than the shape of a rocket.
After a while, this oval-like structure was stationary in the sky with no flames. This oval-like structure looked very small as it was far. I didn’t know how big it would be up close. But I had never heard of a structure getting stuck in the middle of the sky. It was different.
I thought maybe our scientists had found a new technology advancement, and now, space travel would be like travelling from one place to another. The thought gave me confidence and pleasure that we as humans were progressing day by day and a day would come when we would only travel in the sky. My expectations rose.
After some time, something more minute came out of this oval structure, and the projection was towards my side. It was again interesting as this small plane was also oval and had no wings. I kept watching as it approached towards me.
Within a couple of minutes, I could easily see it with my naked eye. I tried to find the flag on this oval structure as that would have given me an idea which country it belonged to, but I was unable to find one. The object was shining golden in colour.
As it approached, it looked bigger and bigger. I was excited and surprised too now. So I kept looking at it. After a while, it was quite close to our area. I also made a video of it from my phone, considering it would be a great video to share. Now, this oval-like structure was passing over me, tried to land in the nearby field, and disappeared. It was a hot summer, so most people around were inside their house enjoying the cool air of their air conditioners.
Now I was anxious, interested, and a little worried about its intentions. My curiosity increased, and I wore my slippers and went down to find the object. The landing area was not far from my house. My house was close to a vast empty land, which was about a 10-minute walk away.
Something was triggered in me, some kind of energy flow, which asked me to go and explore this object. I was a little reluctant and scared but got a little courage to do so. With lots of new things already happening in my life, I felt like taking another risk. Maybe the forces had come down to assassinate some negative element in this part of the world or as maybe aliens. The alien part of my imagination gave me reasons to go and explore it. So I took
a few items such as my wallet and my cell phone as it had a torch in it.
I got out of my house, looked at the sky to predict the direction of the object, and started moving towards that direction. I finally found a trace of its landing nearby, but there was no flying object around. I was confused about its disappearance.
How could this happen, I wondered. Such a big structure disappeared in a short while. It should have been there. Well, this made me panic, and I took steps back towards home. I tried to look around a little, here and there but couldn’t find anything, which made me take brisker steps. This adventure was no adventure anymore.
Several new thoughts were continuously born in my mind. What was it and for what reason did it come here? As I neared the front door of my house, I heard someone call my name from behind. I looked back, and there was nobody. I looked towards my house, got scared, and fell down.
There was a person standing in front of me. I looked at it intently and realised it was unlike a human. It looked like someone was wearing some costume. He asked, “How are you doing, Parnog?” and gave me his hand to help me up. I looked at him again from head to toe.
He had perfectly tied long hair. His hair was red, and he was wearing a gown-like cloth, which had a watery colour. His eyes were green, and his face was very bright. As I looked at his feet, I saw that he was not wearing anything on the feet and was actually standing one foot above the ground.
As I saw him flying, my next thought was to run away from him. As he was standing in the way to my house, I took a route to my friend’s place who lived nearby. My heart was beating fast. I had an adrenaline rush, and I was running very fast. My friend lived just 200 metres away from my place. I finally reached my friend’s doorsteps and looked behind. No one was following me.
I looked back again towards his gate and saw this anonymous person standing in front of me. Before I could take a step back and run away, he held my hand. As he held my hand, something started flowing into my body, some kind of energy. It felt like having a deep puff of weed in my body, which made me feel giddy at once. Something was rushing into my bloodstream, and I could feel it. Within a while, my eyes got heavier, and I was deep asleep. I opened up my eyes after a while and found myself on a bed in a different place.
I did not know this place. I started thinking what this place was and where I was. I took a step down from my bed and went towards the window. I tried to see through but couldn’t. I was a little scared now as I felt that I was captured by those people. But the question was who and why me?
What value do I have in this world? Maybe I was taken for some scientific assignment, and I would be researched on. Or I was captured by aliens, and they would experiment on me or make clones of me. I was not yet certain where I was. I started to yell and ask for help. I started blaming myself for being too adventurous. I didn’t mean to land up here, what should I do now?
I was deep in thought. Where are they taking me? What’s next? I have been abducted, and no one knows it. I will die here with them, and my parents will never be able to find me. What will happen to them? Who will take care of them? I was thinking about all the possible angles. I looked around a little, but there was nothing apart from a window and bed. The room was completely white in colour, even the bed and bed sheets.
As I roamed around in this room, trying to find something relevant, I heard some sound. Suddenly, someone approached me through a door, which looked like a wall earlier. He was the same guy I had seen the last time near my friend’s house. Now I had no place to hide and no choice but to face him. I prepared myself for a fist fight and regained my confidence, as that was the only thing I had at the moment.
“Who are you? What am I doing here?”
He said, “Hello again, Parnog.”
I repeated, “Who are you? How do you know my name?”
He said, “I know you would have a lot of questions in your mind, and it’s natural. That is how you are designed to work as a human. I will give you all the clarifications over time, but before that, you have to believe me and what I say.”
I said, “Why should I believe you?”
“Because you don’t have any other option at this point.”
I said, “I will fight.”
He said, “Well, that is a stupid response, what will you do next? Will you run away? But where, child? You are in the sky.”
I was stunned now and one thing was clear—I was with aliens.
I said, “You are asking me to believe someone who just abducted me and got me into this place.”
He said, “I know it’s annoying when you are forced to do something that is not your wish. But even I didn’t have any other way to get you here.”
“What do you want from me?” I asked.
He said, “So to start with, I would like to answer your first question which is where you are. Well, you are in a spaceship, and I am taking you to my planet or I may say your planet.”
I said, “Why are you taking me to your planet, and how come it’s my planet? I live on earth.”
He said, “I will answer these questions when the time is right, but for now, I must tell you that whatever is happening is happening because you are destined to go through it. You are not a normal human being. There are powers who had decided destiny for you.”
I said, “What do you mean by I am not a normal human being?”
He said, “Do you remember the flight incident when your consciousness told you about creating your future and how you did a miraculous job saving all the lives in that plane?”
Now I wondered how he knew about that. Did my consciousness speak to him or did he make all that happen?
Did you make that flight engine go down? And did you make me speak to my conscious? Was that you in there as my consciousness too?
He said, “No, we didn’t—it was supposed to happen. We just placed you in the right place to help you realise that you are not what you think of yourself, but you are more than that. Much more, I can say.”
I said, “So you were behind that.”
He said, “Yes, you can say so, but it was all planned to happen, and you made it happen. Your thoughts created reality.”
I said, “How could that be possible, and now what is that you want from me?”
He answered, “We wanted to give you more insight into who you truly are but you need to believe in me, if I had to harm you, I wouldn’t be talking to you in this manner. You would have been in some other place where you would have been treated in a different way. So you should help me to help you in the current circumstances. As you have a few options, just wait for the right time to get all your answers. We are friends, and you will know that soon. By the way, my name is Zanam.”
It seemed like I didn't have much of a choice but to cooperate with him. He sounded like a good person and not a bad one.
So I asked him again, with a little belief, “Where am I?”
He said, “Currently, you are inside the ship of Vardan.”
“What is Vardan?” I asked.
He said, “Our planet is called Vardan.”
I said excitedly, “So am I going to a new planet. Where is it located?”
“Somewhere quite far from your planet. It is inside the sun’s core.”
I almost shouted in surprise, “Are you kidding? Who can survive the sun’s heat and you live within it? I will be old by the time we get there.”
He said, “Yes, you are right according to the planet earth. But now, where Vardan is concerned, we are much more advanced in technology than you on earth and can do the things that you can’t even imagine doing. One of the differences is that you walk on earth and we just move. Look you are also moving now and not walking.”
I looked at my feet, and I was actually above the ground. I didn’t realise it until now. I got nervous looking at my feet and fell. He came near me to help me stand up. I held his hand, as I was not confident enough to stand.
He said, “I would like to share all the knowledge th
at you already know but need a quick recall of.”
I asked, “How do I know everything? And what information are you talking about?”
He said, “You will come to know just have a slight faith in me, and things will change for you.
“Do I have a choice of not listening to you?” I demanded.
He said, “Technically not, but even then, I don’t want to force you as I did earlier. You are not a prisoner here but a guest. Things will be better if you accept them as they come.”
“Ok then just do whatever you want.”
He held my hand again, and something started happening to my brain. It was a different feeling this time, and I liked it.
After a couple of minutes, he let go of my hand.
He said, “I have tried to induce what was missing in you. The knowledge that was yours but you forgot as you became human, and you should know it before you reach Vardan.”
I said, “What do you mean I forgot it as I was on earth?”
He said, “You were born on earth for a purpose, but there was a time when you were part of our team.”
I was astonished, “Really, in my previous birth?”
He said, “Yes.”
I could feel the difference in my body language, and my brain gave me a few flashes from the past. I looked at the window, and I could actually see everything outside. It was an amazing view that I couldn’t believe. The whole sky was full of rock-like structures. The structures were bigger and smaller, both hanging from the sky. The sky looked so big as if it did not have limits. My vision was not only strong now; I could see things that were quite far. I could see the earth too from here.
He said, “Well, it seems we just crossed Mercury, and we’re finally going towards the sun.”
I said, “We were going very fast. Do you travel at the speed of light as we do on earth for such travelling?”
He said, “Well, I would say we are actually travelling 1000 times faster than the speed of light.”
I looked at him again with surprise. I had never travelled more than 900 km/hr by a plane and now I was actually travelling so fast that it felt like I was not travelling. Within the next couple of minutes, we were about to touch the sun’s outer surface. It was so bright outside that I could only see red, yellow, and green lights moving around. Their ship seemed to be equipped with everything that could hold it against this temperature.
