NIGHTMARE OR AN ADVENTURE?

NIGHTMARE OR AN ADVENTURE?

What can be a biggest nightmare for any girl or for that matter anyone? A severe hair fall or perhaps even going completely bald? I am sure everyone fears it. It’s weird how my constant fear of hair loss has got so engrossed in my mind that I end up getting them in my dreams. I really wonder how I get such strange and weird dreams and tend to remember them all. I am not sure if it’s a good thing to get dreams so often or to remember them. If analyzed deeply, one may realize that its nothing but a multiple unrelated experiences or memories which you had in past brought together in the form of dream, though they make no sense in the reality.



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It’s about the dream I once had about hair fall. There was this character, A mad scientist, I don't remember the face, but he was in his mid-40s, bald, psychotic and a criminal. He was everywhere in the news, CBI & police were looking for him.

It was a Sunday morning, my dad and brother were watching news on TV, mom busy in kitchen chores and I was getting ready to go meet my friends. I was combing my hair when I heard the news reporter from the TV say “Breaking News! Scientist turned Murderer! A week before five people from different parts of the city went missing. Two days ago, two were found dead. As per the police & forensic reports it was suspected that, the scientist XXX is kidnapping the people with massive hair loss.”  The moment I heard hair loss a big chunk of hair came off my head while doing my hair. I screamed in terror “Mummy….!!!” the news went on in background “…. and testing his hair treatment formulas illegally. Reports says that his hair gain formula was rejected by FDA( Food & Drug Administration) for conducting the human trials for obvious reason as it was found to be lethal to humans.” No one paid much attention to the news but it’s kind of echoed in my ears, he was kidnaping people with hair problems. I was so much in shock that I fainted. A few moments later I opened my eyes, And I was not at my home… I was in a jail in the cave surrounded by some strangers. I could hear someone crying and sobbing. As my vision got clearer, I could see a laboratory in front of me. My mind got alarmed! “Oh my God. I am Kidnapped!”

Few moments later, I accepted the fact that I am kidnapped. I looked around. There were around ten people along with me including all the age groups having a different hair loss conditions, one of us was a cancer patient who had a undergone a chemotherapy and there was this poor little girl along with us continuously crying, whom we happened to find that is daughter of that mad scientist. Due to heredity, she inherited same hair loss problem like her dad. “He didn’t even spare his own child.” one of the person behind me said and sighed.  

He walked in while we were bonding you know #victimbondingthing. He entered with a creepy laugh announcing that “Today is the day one of you going to thank me for rest of your life.” He was so ignorant of the fact that his technique was killing people. “Let’s see whose lucky day is today” he rubs his hands in excitement and sat near his some age old computer system “Rule is rule, I am using this computer software which will randomly pick one of you based on your ID no. I don’t want to be partial towards anyone” weird creepy laugh.  It was then I realized that we all have an ID card in our neck. (how weird a dream can be?) “yeahuh, so its ID no Bald@08.who is it?”, a guy behind us was shaking and sweating in fear. “Please save me. Please save me god.” He whispered. The jail lock was opened automatically, and guy was beeping. “Ayah don’t worry, it’s just a beeper to find out the person” He dragged that guy out. he made him sit on his apparatus , it was weird , was like a chair with a belt on his head , it looked like a steamer , we girls see in the beauty parlors not that complicated and then he threw some violet liquid with purple fumes over his head.  It triggered a science student in me. Purple fumes. I remembered the salt identification experiment performed during my plus 2 in chemistry lab.  It surely has an Iodine component in that chemical. (don’t know how this piece of information going to help) I was lost in my mental investigation. A moment later. The guy got his hair back we were so shocked it happened so fast for a moment I believed that its real effective but, in a minute, or two that guy’s head started degenerating and he was screaming for help just like they show in movies with visual effects. The guy’s head disappeared, and he died with a body without head. “Damn seems like I picked a wrong rat, damn it, waste fellow, tomorrow I will come again and pick another one.. be ready” mad scientist looked at us in disappointment and I don’t know why he was a giving a look like a coach gives to his players when they don’t perform well. But damn it was no lesser then a horror movie. 

“He is a monster, dangerous monster!” his daughter burst off crying terrified to see his father do such sort horrific things, shivering, stammering. Like every movie, we didn’t lose hope we started making AN ESCAPE PLAN.  (will be continued in my next post “An Escape Plan”)

I know you might be wondering how one can remember a dream so clearly, ah yes you are right. It is bits and pieces of my dream where the gap was filed with my imagination. Hope you liked it. 
I would love to hear about your experiences with your dreams. Do leave your valuable comment. 😊

-Ravina Mudgal