The Bright Red Car

It’s the middle of the night and raining heavily. A car was fast approaching towards me and I didn’t notice. The moment it came closer to me I can see its bright red sports car and before I can react it just ran over me.

I woke up again with this nightmare. This is happening every night and now even the sleeping pills are not working. The number plate of that red car was always visible it ran over me in my dreams. I can recognize the colour make and model of the car, but the number always shows up hazy, not sure if its due to the rain or my near or farsightedness vision.

It took me many nightmares to trace out only 4 letters out of 10 of that car’s number plate. All the letters are written digitally. The first and sixth letters are ‘M’ and ‘W’. 4^th and the 10^th position has number two and five. If the numbers I concluded are correct then the number of the car looks like “M_ _6_W_ _ _9”. There will be lots of blanks to fill. The only thing I figured out from that number plate was the number I depicted are mirror reflections of each other.

I spoke about this problem to my family and close friends and also tried every option they suggested. The results are not hopeful and improving and gradually degrading to a situation where I started hating any cars with bright red colour.

Although it did stop momentarily when I got promoted recently and found the girl to get married soon. Then tonight the occurrence of that dream started again.

When next day, my doctor found even the high dosage of sleeping pills are not working, he said “Utkarsh, I am recommending you to the best analyst of this problem”. When he found me curious, he continued “He is Mr. Bairagi, the best research scholar from the prestigious institute IIRRR. He will analyse your dreams. Remember no one can actually analyse that dreams fully. We do not know if the incident is symbolic or from the past or any indication about future. I am sure he will able to closely predict the reason. Just visit him directly”.

I took all the necessary details and booked an appointment with Doctor Bairagi. On that day, I took one of my friends to the clinic but he was asked to wait outside the chamber. After filling up all the formalities when I went inside, I found the man of age almost 50 to 55 years came out to greet me. He has all grey hairs entangled in ponytails. He has a moustache which is also partially turning white. It gave me a feeling that he might have that crazy scientist look if he makes his hair all loose but just for the patients he made this ponytail to his hairs to appear cool.

I went inside with him to his chamber. There are many big machines in the chamber. Most of those machines looks more like astronomy machines rather than medical ones to me. I was wondering where I have been sent and what this man is up to? He asked me to sit on the couch nearby and started a conversation which went something similar to this

Doctor Bairagi: I am aware you already know the accuracy of this result. The maximum accuracy we received so far is 25 to 30 percent only. Since we do not know how this dream planted inside your mind. So first will go digging at past. If we can’t find anything there then only we will safely assume it as some symbol or some intuition for nearby future.  So before can I proceed further I want to know when this event was actually started.

Me: It first started when I was really frustrated with every aspect of my life, few years back. Hitting by a red car was not my original dream.  The first time a red car came to my dream was different.

Doctor Bairagi: I want to listen to that story, Utkarsh. It is very important for me to know every dream you have.

I tried to recollect my other nightmare with a hope that this will help in this therapy.

Me: One fine night I had seen this weird dream. I am running as fast as I can. I have never run that fast in my life. When I turned back I found, I am running from the pack of dogs that are hysterically barking and chasing me. When I looked in front I found a slow moving car with bright red in colour. It does look like moving slowly for me and from the car’s rear window a small boy most probably of age 4 to 6 years smiled and raised his hand with a gesture of saying bye to me. Then I saw a woman’s hand took that child’s face and hand inside the car and closed that rear window of that car. Within a moment, the car zooms out of my sight.

Doctor Bairagi: Hmm Interesting. What happened to you after that, in that dreams?

Me: I don’t know it always stopped there. Unlike my other dream, I never wake up in the middle of the night after seeing this dream. I always find this dream pleasant. When my life started improving I stopped having this dream. Since the past couple of years, I am having this dream of been hit by a red car in the middle of a rainy night. Although, the car which hit me and the car which I am running towards are no way related to each other except the red colour and the occurrence at night.

There was pin drop silence for some time. I can see the doctor is in deep thinking, taking some notes. After some time, he asked me back. “Do you know the kid or the woman in your dreams?” I said - “No, I never seen that Kid and I can’t see the face of that woman. I do see this dream when my life is stressed out otherwise it was the dream mostly of the car hitting me.”

“Your consent form revealed that you are yet to be married, so there is a possibility of this incidence relate to your future too” The doctor responded spontaneously. “Don’t worry we will analyze both of your dreams.  Let’s start our procedure” He continued and asked me to lie down on a medical bed with wheels, which gradually moves inside a huge machine.

While lying there looking upwards I am able to hear Doctor Bairagi’s voice which instructs me to think about things happened yesterday, then a week back. I keep describing the incidences it continued till my childhood and birth. Then he said now think about your past life. I just woke up inside the machine.

Doctor Bairagi: Why did you open your eyes, we will have to redo this exercise again.

Me: Are you going to take me to my past birth? I am not comfortable with that.

Doctor Bairagi: Yes, off course. I already mentioned we will analyse your past first. How will I know if the dreams you are having is from your past birth or not. We will take you to the last memory trace you have about your last birth or may be beyond that.

This is my nature to get agitated which other feel is small thing. With prolonged lack of sleep had actually increased this behaviour of mine.

Me: I do not believe in this reincarnation stuff. You said this is only 30 percent accurate what if I am not able to come back from that memory? I always stuck in that memory or my present birth memory erase. You never provided me any details before starting this therapy.

My sudden change in behaviour had put doctor Bairagi shock momentarily. He tried to recover as soon as he can and answered “30 percent accuracy is the analysis of the result, not the process to take you to your past births. This is 100 percent accurate. This is the result of my research in IIRRR of many years. Nothing that you have feared will happen”. I know I don’t have any choice, but his answer do convince me and obliged to do the needful again from the start. This time I am with more determination to uncover the truth.

Once I have passed my infancy I reached to my last birth. I can see a village and an expressway or a freeway where the cars are running in very high speed. The moment I entered further the machine started making loud noises, it seems the machine is not able to decode further.

In doctor Bairagi’s word “This never happened to any of his patients before”. I thought he will end the session today, but it seems this technical challenge had made him adamant to fix.  He tuned something at that machine then he suggested that he will make me unconscious and then take me to my past life directly. It will be his responsibility to bring me back from that unconscious state. This will be kind of driving in auto pilot mode in my past life. He was pretty sure that all keys to my dreams lies there only otherwise machines would not have behaved this way.

My concern was how will I know what happened. He suggested that every conversation in this room is recorded, so he will get it once the session is over. I do not have any option rather than trust him.

He came close to me with an injection with a smile and said “Everything will be fine Utkarsh”. I started feeling the dizziness, started seeing the darkness engulfing the brightness and started listening to a sound which is alien to me. I am sure what so ever happening inside my mind and body is not good but now I am too weak to resist that from happening.

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Disclaimer: All the peoples and incidents depicted in this story are the mere act of fiction. No person living or dead exists.

©Tapas Majumdar, Not for reproduction without Author's permission.