Sleeping Paralysis

Have you ever experienced that, some devil or ghost sitting on top of you, pushing your body and making you suffocate to breath, unable to move or speak for brief period of time when you were asleep? Do not be worried you are not alone. It is nothing but, sleeping paralysis.

It is a condition, which happens when you experience REM (Rapid Eye Movement), it is a deep sleeping state. Whenever one experiences sleeping paralysis, one tend to panic as our brain would always try for reasoning and it would make us believe that we are unable to move as ghost or devil is sitting on top of us making all these things. And we believe that it is because of ghost, so we end up in nightmares which would make us sweating.

3 years back I had experienced the worst nightmare, around 3AM in the morning I experienced this phenomenon and told my room mate (Badri Badrinath Varadharajan) that something is trying to push me and making me suffocate. He comforted me and said it would be dream or something. After 15 minutes or so, he woke up and screamed that he also experienced that. We were frightened and we went to hall and preferred to stay awake till the dawn.

It took 3 years for me to realize that, it is a medical condition and ghost do not exist as I believed. Nowadays when I go through this, I do get hallucination and in my lucid dreams I will tell myself it is because of Sleeping Paralysis and I am dreaming.It would make me confident. So next time when you experience this phenomena just tell yourself that you are going through sleeping paralysis.

Well, it is true that "Appearance is always deceptive"

Thanatophobia - Fear of death

Recently I had a chance to watch one of the videos in Ulaganayagan Tube channel in Youtube, in that Kamalhassan paid his last tribute for his close friend R.C.Shakthi (who happened to be the director who introduced Kamalhassan as hero in his film) who passed away couple of weeks ago due to his elderly age. In that video, he mentioned that he is not feeling bad as his friend is no more. Because they knew very well it will come to everyone, and he had added that he might miss his physical presence but his memories are with him. I am shocked to hear those words and it is too much for an emotional guy like me.

Once Rajinikanth was criticized by the cinema fraternity for not attending the funerals of the actors who were once his close friends. For that he came up with the reply that, visiting the funerals of friends would make him very upset, and would always remind him of his last rites performed on them instead of the very nice memories he shared with the one who is no more. I found this answer quite convincing. After that he started visiting the funerals as he became one of the unavoidable personality in the state.

I am a normal human being, and I am not ashamed to say that I am afraid of death. Deaths do make me feel insecure and would leave me dejected at least for a week. In some way or the way I would find reasons to not to attend any funerals( blame it on my fear). On the other hand, the loud cries and the formalities/process being followed in funerals induce the element of fear inside me.

Though I am a big fan of Kamalhassan, in this matter I go with Rajinikanth. I did not attend some of my close relatives funerals, though I did not plan to not to attend them. It happened that way. When somebody talk about those deceased relatives, it gives me a feeling that they are living peacefully in the place where they used to live, and it is due to the reason that I did not see those rituals performed for them, I did not their motionless body with flower garland. I did not see people crying around them.

Dilip Shanghvi, became the richest Indian.....

He toppled Mukesh Ambani from his coveted place, where he comfortably sat for the last 7years or so and now this position has a new person.

Who is Dilip Shanghvi? He is the owner of Sun Pharma, the pharmaceutical company which is 4th largest in the world. After his company acquired Ranbaxy pharma, his company's shares reached dizzying heights. His company's current market capitalization is 215000 crore rupees.He started his business in 1983 with few lakhs as investment and now in 32 years he has reached this milestone.


 What bothers me is that, in 2002 his company market capitalization were around 2600 odd crores. Well had I not studied engineering for 2 years and instead my father had spent that money by buying Sun Pharma shares, it would have worth 1 crore by now :D :D :D. His company has grown by 100 times in the last 13 years. Phenomenal isn't it?


Moral of the story is the early movers on any profession will have the full advantage of gaining the unprecedented reaps. Always rely on your instincts and sometimes you got to take decisions based on leap of your faith, do not worry about the outcome.