The freaky thing about nightmares is realizing that they were created by your mind.
Today was a strange day, I had so many dreams jumping from one person to the other. This has happened before but sometimes I remember them so vividly. Like I had dreams of me being caught in the family home that was almost dust then, by a good friend from a previous job, straight into some other strange dreams that I cannot describe but felt as if it was real.
Then a dream of me signing up for London Marathon, attending the winning ceremony with my brother who was once based in London, looking at the podium. Now I know I didn’t run as I can’t run for a while but for some reason was hoping for my name to be called out as one of the winners. I even felt at one stage that I knew someone who was holding one of the 3 titles of ‘one’, ‘two’ and ‘three’. In the end, my name didn’t come up and two passersby I knew, didn’t recognize me even after I called out their names. These dreams I couldn’t even google, as generally the ones I have are signs so I tend to google to make whatever sense I can out of them, like dreaming of a cat, my once-upon-a-time dog pet and so on. I even google the colours of feathers that I sometimes see on a path unexpectedly.
Coming back to the morning that was real, yoga was good as usual, in fact went over by 10 minutes which felt great and then breaky was well deserved at 8am. Usual chats, more about politics this time that brought in more conversations and we agreed to follow it with a detailed discussion, before we parted ways for our respective consultation schedules. I barely made it to the room and heard a knock for the treatment. It’s potli time, the doctor had earlier suggested the ladies to focus more on the knee, shoulder and recently realized noises from the left ankle as it had started clicking at every step down the stairs. After the usual prayers, while the lawn mow was in full speed, we all assumed and believed it was silent in the treatment room, so we went into a meditative mode. The background music was on and as I lay on the treatment bed, the two ladies started in full synchronization and maintained it this time with the tune of the music, and while this was relaxing, the mow had started its music again. So the calculation was simple, right shoulder, right knee and left ankle .. or was it? After an hour with focus on certain areas, I showered and they put another taping on the shoulder with herbs covered with cotton on top. There were so many thoughts I had that at one stage I was getting tired of it, so started chanting some mantras and before I knew, I was back to the thinking mode all the while. From family to friends, to future and where I see myself. Some thoughts are new and the future surely was placing all that I was attracting but somehow it was also taking me further away from what I wanted, in a strange way. Five years would mean everyone moves on by 5 years and I started thinking what that would be, for each of them and for me and for all of us, where would I be in their lives in 5 years? Should I be even thinking like this?
Second treatment was foot massage and this one put me to sleep as it was relaxing and at the points much needed, in the surrounding of my own room. I woke up in time for some mangoes and tea, and chats with the people around, then an announcement of a yoga class at 5pm made me head there earlier for my head stand practice. A 40-minute stretching is better than nothing at all, dinner was soup as usual and I continued reading the second book I picked from the library till 9pm, soon after the lady came with the special wrap for the knees and my last visitor was one with a shot of medicine before bed time.
With sounds from both sides, today I was going to inaugurate my newly bought ear plugs that seem to have a great technology behind it, that’s what the box and instructions said. I had two sets of windows in the room, one facing the street so I could hear traffic in the day and unlimited sounds in the night including that of the birds and neighbours. The other window opened to the terrace that faces million trees, birds and crickets who think it as their birth right to keep us awake.
