The Joker's Tales

4 mini classified x-file esque stories which happened to me in Dublin over the last spring/ summer.

Am both agent Scully and Mulder.

Strange things do happen in this modern AI world.

I might or might not have the answers someday but a bit of mystery in life is okay.

1. One evening I was lying in my bed wrecked, heavy on drugs and almost passed out. In that moment, I came rushing to aid and said to myself " What are you doing?' 'What are you doing?' repeatedly.

I mumbled and fall asleep.

That was my very own humbling life changing out of body experience.

2. A mysterious guy caught my x- file radar. Tall, older white gentleman in rather unusually same assemble every time I see him. Always donning big cowboy hat ,sunglasses, jean and boots in the summer. I saw him first on O Connell Street, either walking behind or in front of me. He must be some dude coming back from house party , so i thought.

We also bumped into each other face to face twice, both in the Grafton Street but my alarm went really off when I started seeing him at St Stephen Green' park as well.

It cant be simply co incidences. He was everywhere.

Why I kept seeing him?

What was his intention?

One morning , of course he was there on the bench waiting for me at the park again. Flustered I was , I gave him the death stares as I had enough of him. He saw me , slowly removed his sunglasses and took off his cowboy hat revealing his bald head, a gesture that I reckoned he actually meant no harm.

The only explanation to his many appearances was around that time I was wrongly becoming too light forgetting my shadow my dark female energy which was not okay. I just have to be me be honestly myself and embracing my flaws instead of chasing perfection.

It's the balance in life that is matters.

And yes, we did meet again days later.

This time, he seemed happier with crips and can of soft drinks on his hands.

My verdict is he was a guide.

3. The next x file story is about another strange repeat encounters with a middle aged white lady. I was in my solitude and well sober when these two entities started showing up. Unlike the cowboy man , she gave me more of the villain vibes right from the start. Gurl.. is you ok? She not so kindly asked me to complete a survey when I was out at Christchurch park. She was pretty rude, rushed and easily distracted with her dog pacing around.

Totally appalling behaviours for the job.

I had the impression that she just wanted my phone number so I made her day by giving my old dead number instead.

One lovely summer afternoon , I went to the same park again for the sun. The park was busy and the sun was glorious.

A small dog came to play with me but I snubbed the dog because it might not be okay with the owner.

Thinking I was scared of her dog , a lady reassured me that the dog was no trouble. A familiar voice and when I looked at her face damnnn its the same survey lady.

She seemed to grow a little interest on me.

Dublin is small but you still don’t see the same random stranger again and again.

Talking about my own 20 years old experience.

Surprise me not the next day she appeared again walking her dog by the Luas lane near Smithfield.

What a small world we lived in.

She looked away knowing I spotted her.

It was very suspicious of her.

A month or so then when I was having my Saturday coffee at Starbuck, another old lady claimed to be in her 70s came sitting down beside me when there were still plenty of free seats around. She bought no coffee and started chatting up , asking about me and then talking about her health which took quite some time. She was recently out from the hospital and was only back from religious event in Donegal. I did myself disfavour for telling her I was a doctor. At one point she came suspiciously very close to me.

I reminded her to respect my personal space and not to come anywhere near my belongings.

Her mannerism was very much similar to the first lady and to me they were strangely the same person.

Or maybe she was just a c#nt.

I ended our chat with a smile.

Am sure we will meet again, I made sure she knows I knew and then walked away.

4. Have you had incubus phenomenon/ sleep paralysis ?. It’s harmless and most will have it once or twice in their life . I used to have it all the time especially when am sleeping on my back. Scientifically , it usually happens when we falling or waking up from sleep. The body is still in sleep mode but the brain is already awake. Muscles paralysis or atonia phenomenon is common. Legend blame sleep paralysis to incubus and succubus, demonic entities. It did feel like something pressing on the chest, suffocation and at times I had to break mine by jumping out of the bed and fall painfully onto the floor. I did see shadows in the corner as well. Insomnia and sleeping flat on the back were my triggers.

   I thankfully don’t get it anymore and in fact I can sleep on my back without any problem.