Illusory World Author: Dr. K. S. Kang

 

Illusory World

Author: Dr. K. S. Kang

Sometimes illusions lead us to believe to take even rope for a snake in the darkness and when it turns actually to be a rope it is believed that due to a miracle serpent has been turned into a rope and almighty has saved us. One such incident happened when one of my friend Muthu in the darkness of the room put his shirt in the reverse manner- back portion in the front at the back and back at the front. He discerned it when he found the buttons at his back. As he was in hurry and had no time to change the position of his shirt so he called his room mate to button up his shirt from behind and without listening and saying anything rushed outside, took his bike and dashed towards his workplace. As he was in a hurry so he jumped a couple of even red traffic lights, however at the third light it dawned on him that he ought to respect the traffic rules so he stopped on red light but here he collided with another vehicle coming from the other side who had jumped red light as perhaps he was in hurry too to reach his destination. Result of the collision was that Muthu fell on the ground and got unconscious. The other vehicle driver Swamy Narayan got out of his vehicle and saw the result of that collision that a bike and a rider was lying on the ground. He saw that the victim of the impact head was in another direction. It did not occur to him that the victim of the collision might have worn his shirt in the reverse manner. Thinking that the impact has caused the head to move in the opposite direction to the rest of the body, so Swamy Narayan tried to straight the neck of the victim by giving a jerk, but then it occurred to him that victim should ge immediate medical assistance. So he took him to the nearest clinic where Dr. Sunder examined Muthu and found that there was no serious injury to him and he had swooned due to the shock of the impact. Swamy Narayan came to see the patient and found to his great relief that the head of the victim has come in the right direction. He thanked the doctor profusely and asked how did he change the direction of his head that was in opposite direction at the time of collision. Doctor Sundar told him to relax as there was no change of position in his head due to impact only the victim of the impact had worn his shirt in opposite manner. So Muthu came back of senses after some time Dr. Sunder who introduced him to Swamy Narayan who had collided with him but he had brought him to the hospital. Muthu also felt that there was no serious injury on his body, only there was a sharp pain in his neck. Doctor consoled him that he would get right soon of the pain in the neck while Swamy Narayan thanked God that he left his efforts to straighten Muthu’s neck other wise he would have died not due to collision but due to broken neck, so whatever appears may not be real.

Another incident that happened with me other day that I put my shirt inside out in the early hours of the morning and unfortunately at the time power supply was disrupted. Normally whenever I put my shirt I close the buttons on the cuffs. When I searched for a couple of buttons on my left cuff I found them to be mission. To my utter dismay and amazement I also found the couple of buttons missing on the right cuff of the shirt. And when I searched nearly half a dozen buttons at the from of my shirt I failed to find even a single one. I was totally lost as to what is happening to the things as last night when I hung my shirt in the wardrobe it had all the buttons intact. How it could happen that all the buttons are missing within the span of six to eight hours of night. I gave a cry of wonder, surprise and amazement as a result of which my partner Roma came into the room and I told her everything as quickly as I could in halting speech. She also touched the cuffs and front part of my shirt and found that buttons were missing. Then she suddenly understood the matter and asked me to put off my shirt and she straightened it and asked me to put it back again. I complied with her instruction and then she slowly brought me from darkness into the light of the grey morning. And again it appeared a miracle to me that as soon as I came from darkness into light buttons started appearing both on my cuffs and front part of my shirt. It did not occur to me in darkness that I might have put my shirt inside out.