“The Cat”

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Dark evening I found myself walking through very dark and Narrow Street. I could hardly see anything but still kept moving forward with no idea of my destination. The pain in my legs made me realized that the surface I was walking was rough and uneven. Few minute of walk and noticed shining eyes, watching me full of anger. As I walk forward noticed it was a Cat (Dark black cat, big red shining eyes, long moustaches, sharp long tooth, mouth wide open, hanging huge tongue and dropping saliva from jaw) standing on the wall of about five feet height. The cat seems so horror that I tried to run away from it and turned behind but found a wall just behind me. The path I just walked vanished and I was captured by walls from every direction and in front was the huge black cat. The cat jumped into me spreading its paws towards my face, the frightened me just managed to get away from the big nails paws.

 

I woke up on my bed full of sweat, November 10, 2020, 5:30 AM. I took a deep relaxing breathe after realizing that it was just a horrible dream but nothing more. I took a nap and grabbed a cup of strong black coffee and spent the whole day normally like always. Days passed, weeks passed, the dream was no more in my thought until the morning of November 27, 2020. I again woke up full of sweat having the same dream, same cat with completely same appearances, same dark and rough street, exactly the same dream. This time I had some mixed feelings (surprise, frighten and curious) regarding my dream. How can someone have completely carbon copy dream twice in same month? Later I convinced myself saying may be my mind still has the impact of the horrible dream. Though I have consul my heart but that didn’t last long.

 

It was just few days and again I saw exactly the same dream and this incident keeps continuing for almost a month. It was as if the recurring dream. Encountering the same dream with the gap of a night, made me curios and afraid at the same time. I thought to take the help of doctor and consult a psychologist. As soon as I explained the entire incident he replied that it was just my tired mind within the tired body and asked me to have some break from business. He believes the horrible recurring dream reflects my monotonous and hectic daily schedule. As suggested by the psychologist I took some much needed break from my business life and decided to have a week trip to my home town where I can lay all my pains in my mother’s lap and find my happiness in her freshening and inspiring heavenly smile.

The town surrounded by natural beauty, well and newly pitched roads, fresh and cold wind directly coming from the woods, and the most important part is spending time with my Aama (Mother), what better place could be in this entire world to relax my tired mind. Unfortunately, it didn’t take too long to destroy all my plans and excitement because even though I was away from my hectic life, the dream had decided to stick with me, no matter where I go or what I do. The dream of the same black cat, dark and rough road was disturbing me but this time I have a friend around me with whom I can share all my worries and pains.

 

I finally decided to share my entire situation with my Aama and told her everything\ right from the beginning. As soon as she heard about my dream, she was socked and frightened and said me that my dream was the symbol of something bad coming my way. As she believes black cat is the symbol of devil and she was sure some devil force was behind me. At the beginning I ignored her and said her that all those things don’t have any realistic values or belief and also requested her to stop believing in all those activities, but at the end as always my Aama wins the debate and convinced me to go and see a wizard who would help me to get rid of the devil following me.

 

The next day, Sun was still to light up the world, we reached to the place of the wizard. The dark and old house seems as if electricity was not access there. Hanging flames all over the place with hanging bones. There he offered me a small piece of black dress and asked me to hold it in my closed fist and he himself started spelling some magical tricks. After he finished his spell he asked me to open my hand and I was so much surprised to see that black cloth was turned into ashes. He took the ashes and put tika in my head and at the side of my neck. And believed that with this power the devil will never trouble me again but I was not convinced with the words of the wizard.

 

Days passed and it was time for me to leave the town and returned back to my old busy life. While I was bidding bye to everyone, mother asked me do I still have the same dream and with the broad smile on my face I replied no Aama no more. Then I realized that it was almost 4 nights I haven’t had the dream of the horrible black cat. I was the person who never believed in the spiritual force but this time I was surprised to find myself in such a position where my heart thanks the wizard who helped me to get rid of the cat and on the other hand my mind was still not ready to believe it was the magic of the wizard but instead it believes that it was my psychology which got me rid of that horrible dream. But I never had the dream again.