Menaka

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Story type: Past life
Location: Kerala, India
Source: Form Submission

OBSERVATION: I don't think anyone will beleive me because I've tried saying this to many of my friends and they don't believe a bit of my story, they feel i make it up to seem important but its not true. From when I was twelve, that is, from when I got my mensus, I had very wierd dreams of being in place I havn't seen before. It was sometimes a hallway, sometimes a beutifully lit room (by oil lamps) and an old swing sort of thing (its indian, I don't know if you understand)the swing is more like a bed, but its held by chains to the wall above and it swings, so I call it a swing. I used to think it was just a normal dream, till I started to see this more often.

Then one night I saw myself in an old village or something, I was walking down this very dark hallway and I heard voices, I turned to the room beside and I found a group of men discussing something in old Malayalm (local dialect, Kerala)these men were dressed in really really old Indian clothes, from what I understood, I realized they were mutinizing the King (whoever he was!). I woke up and had no thought about it again.

I used to live in the middle east from when I was two though I'm an Indian, and I go home once in two years for vacation, and on one such vacation, my father proposed to visit Trivandrum (capital city, Kerala, South India)and we did. We were planning to visit the Planetarium, but unfortunately it was closed for the day, that set us in cunfusion of where to go. Our driver suggested this palace in Trivandrum, and so we went there (site seing). There I found the hall, the swing, just the way I had dreamt... but I told noone then or I'd be considered crazy. Later I chacked up all the information I coukd about MartandaVarma, the King of the palace I found he was mudered in a war,and guess how he lost!! His war techniques were leaked out by mutinees, it seems!

But I thought that was the end, but no! Recently I had a dream, a really stupid dream, a set of numbers; 13, 11, 11,14, 5. Crazy! Why? Coz I've read no one can read in dreams, coz we don't read and dream by the same side of the brain...but that didn't bother me, I converted the numbers into letters, i ended up with M,K,K,N,E. They made no sense till I showed it to my closest friend Reshma who guessed to split one 11 into 1 and 1, to get M, A,A , K ,N, E. We did a simple shuffling to give 'Menaka'

INFERENCE: I suppose I must have been a somebody during Marthanda Varma's time and my name must have been Menaka...

ONE more thing, Though my native place is Pathanamthitta, I am presently settled in Trivandrum, for studies...