Adventures of Zzz

Disclaimer : This is a nightmare. Gory details included. Readers discretion advised. It was more like a symposium in the woods. There were a group of people who had come to stage a demonstration on the evolution of music and how it came about to positively affect out lives. We (a group of people part of the bystanding crowd), made way following the narrow trails between the bushes, creepers and thorns to reach the conference hall in the middle of nowhere. Suddenly, one of our friends fell into quicksand. He was drowning fast and something had to be done quick. Another of my more 'masculine' friends had this idea to throw me in as a rope, with the help of which the drowning friend would be pulled out. Reluctantly, I agreed. He flung me towards him like a fisherman throws the net, but I was still out of his reach. He tried again, inching a little closer, but still no luck. The third time he threw me, the other guy caught my leg and just as soon as he was about to be...

We almost always see ourselves as we are in our dreams. Albeit donning different costumes, behaving strangely or seldom mimicking the likes of somebody else. I saw myself as an inanimate object (was it inanimate, I wonder!). Like most of my dreams, this also takes place in outer space. Maybe I am reading too many NASA articles. I was a part of larger nebula far far away in the vast infinites. Like me too, there were other parts of the nebula who could talk among ourselves. I was a part of the genesis of our universe!! Could you believe it? So the punchline being said, this is how it went about… The part of the nebula that was to be the ‘Sun’ gathered us around and said- “Look, we are going to form a galaxy. You guys are a part of it. This will form 700 light years away. First we need to break away from here and travel 670 light years, then I would break away and form the sun 30 more light years away. Let me go down and see how the surroundings are. I will signal if all is...