I wanted to share a interesting,bizzare but scary incident. It happened in December 2007. So let me remember it and jot down.
On a chilling day, I was doing ice skating in the ice rink right in front of my apartment. I was able to do moderate level of skating. I was enjoying it but suddenly something happened. I am not sure what.......then...
... I felt myself lying on a bed. No signs of skating what so ever.It must be a dream, I thought. Smiling on my ability to see different kind of dreams, I lifted my hand to check time in my wrist watch. I was perplexed to see a band printed "Newport Skates" around my wrist. Was it dream or I really went for skating?
To know the reality, I tried to visualize the rink where I was skating in the "dream". There is no ice skating rink in front of my apartment. There is one, known as Newport Skates, which is at least 500 meters away. But if I went to newport skates, why I was seeing a new skating rink in front of my apartment. Was it real, dream or both?
I forced myself to remember what had happened. The latest memory I could recollect was, myself returning from office on 26th December. In my attempt to see the time, I observed my watch is showing date as 29th December. It created more confusion, more twist. If Todays is 29th Dec, where were the last 3 days. I tried hard to recollect, where were I and what I had been doing in last 3 days but failed in every attempt. Now I was almost awake and found out that this is not my room. It was utterly strange.
After few minutes, I realized that it was Rahul's house. I heard few people talking. It was Arati, Rahul and Balasaheb. Arati was describing something to rahul. I overheard "he fell on his face and although he seems to be little affected physically, he forgot today's date and the events which had happened today". Certainly they were talking about me. There were some scratches on left side of my face. After learning that I realized, Indeed I went to skate and plunged there and it affected my memory.
To know the reality, I tried to visualize the rink where I was skating in the "dream". There is no ice skating rink in front of my apartment. There is one, known as Newport Skates, which is at least 500 meters away. But if I went to newport skates, why I was seeing a new skating rink in front of my apartment. Was it real, dream or both?
I forced myself to remember what had happened. The latest memory I could recollect was, myself returning from office on 26th December. In my attempt to see the time, I observed my watch is showing date as 29th December. It created more confusion, more twist. If Todays is 29th Dec, where were the last 3 days. I tried hard to recollect, where were I and what I had been doing in last 3 days but failed in every attempt. Now I was almost awake and found out that this is not my room. It was utterly strange.
After few minutes, I realized that it was Rahul's house. I heard few people talking. It was Arati, Rahul and Balasaheb. Arati was describing something to rahul. I overheard "he fell on his face and although he seems to be little affected physically, he forgot today's date and the events which had happened today". Certainly they were talking about me. There were some scratches on left side of my face. After learning that I realized, Indeed I went to skate and plunged there and it affected my memory.
Dread of losing my memory, I started recollecting all about myself. After few minutes of endeavor, I realized it seems to be some sort of short term memory loss. All of my long term memories like my name and all were intact but only last few days were gone.
I got up around 10 AM next morning. Head was still heavy but definitely better. First thing I tried is what I was doing almost whole night. Eventually I succeeded. Nothing notable happened on Dec 27th and 28th, just routine. On Dec 29th evening, I went to ice skating with Arati and Balasaheb. I was skating in Newport Skates and next thing I could remember is myself lying at Rahul's place. Still around 8 hours were missing.
I recovered in next few days; Everyone, who learned about this, felt that I was extremely lucky. It could have been far more worse. Still today, that 8 hour segment of memory is missing, how did I fall while skating, how I reached Rahul's home and what happened in between.
I learned from others, who were with me, at that time about those 8 hours. I will write some other time about those. I would like to thank everyone who helped me that night. Rahul, Amarja, Arati, Balasaheb, Meena, Sharaf, Sudhakar.
I learned from others, who were with me, at that time about those 8 hours. I will write some other time about those. I would like to thank everyone who helped me that night. Rahul, Amarja, Arati, Balasaheb, Meena, Sharaf, Sudhakar.
