The ceiling fan chugged on; on the hot humid day it
struggled to push the heavy hot air (I always knew that cold air is heavy!)
aside and around to cool my sweat dripping mind and body. I sighed! I had just
finished cooking an elaborate lunch, had a hurried bath and was looking forward
to stretching out on what is called “the Marshmallow “by the third adult of the
family. But the fan was just not giving me the coolness I required to let my
cells loose and relax. I pushed my creaking bones to get up and find the remote
to switch on the air conditioner but just then the fan took pity on me and
started whirling at its full speed! I was too tired to question its efficiency
and enjoyed it to the fullest and saved on my electricity bill.
This was the first time I noticed this. But it became a
regular thing- when I entered the room or just sat on the bed the fan would be
an old man! But after a few minutes- if I deigned to continue sitting in the
same room it would hurl itself against the wind and cool me down! I tried to
argue with all the science that I had learned in high school – that it was just
the voltage fluctuating! But the same “scientific mind “argued back “why was
this not happening with any other fan in any other room?”
One day the family head, passed a comment, that this fan
was really terrible. I had just came in to take my morning stretch on the
marshmallow. I joked ‘Now that I have come it will work!” believe it or not it
started dancing about fast and voila! I was cool.
I have always had this sixth sense when it comes to
spirits and ghost throughout my life. From the time I was five or six I have
had some kind of eerie experience. I think I have written about a couple of
them. I always know when I enter a new place if its “different”. This new house
had none of the markers that I associate with the supernatural and I had
forgotten about this facet of mine for the first four months that we had lived
here.
I really don’t know whether this episode is a ghost or
the faulty electric conductors on the fan! But I can sense no presence and my
comfort levels are not disturbed. But then never has my comfort levels been
disturbed. I am very aware of all the spirits that swirl about in the air
around me but they are like the sunlight- it’s there but it is no sort of an
impediment to existence! I have only had one malevolent and one scary
experience with this new dimension otherwise it’s been symbiotic experience.
There are too many co incidences in life, too many Deja
vus to be explained away with scientific precision. I am fascinated with this
dimension and as I devour all materials written on this, I hope that one day,
during my life time, we are able to find some kind of communication system (I
do not believe in séances!)
I can hear the snorts and sniggers from many of you but
that does not disturb me because unless you move out of your comfort zone of
four dimension will you be able to experience the nth dimension!
Meanwhile my friendly ghost makes the fan go at whatever
speed I require and lets the bells on my window chime jingle merrily with the
wind J
