The Sixth Sense

I hate watching the soap operas that ladies in our house love to watch. I have no problem with the family serial dramas as such but the background music (rather noise) of these serials irritates me like anything. It seems all serial producers have outsourced the creation of background noise to the same company, which has done a tremendous job of producing the worst noises possible.

One day, after getting mentally disturbed by these noises, some "what if" questions started haunting my mind. What if, background music would be a part of our life? What if, we would be having another organ, just like eyes and ears, which could play music in our mind based on our emotions at that moment?

I was really disturbed because I started looking for answers of these questions by defining the working of the sixth sense. How interesting it would be when you are watching cricket match between India and Pakistan and "Chak De" music would be playing in your mind at high volume. When you are relaxing with your friends, "Dil chahta hai" tune would be soothing you. While kissing your girl friend in a hideout, "Mission impossible" tune would be deafening you. Wow!

This sixth sense, which will play background music, will be like eyes i.e. play if you want to else close it. It will be easier to gauge others mood by asking the music, which is playing in their minds. Same music would be played for two people sitting together, in the same mood. In a party, when everybody is in fun mood, same rock music would be playing in everyone's mind. This would definitely be less intrusive than a DJ band as people not in mood to party can switch off their sixth sense and will not play anything. Doctors will face new questions like, "Last night I had a fight with my wife. My sixth sense should have played Baby Don't Break my heart but the music which played was, I wanna break free. Am I sick?". A hell lot of NGOs will come to life to help the people whose sixth sense is disabled by birth. These NGOs, in collaboration with Apple or Sony, will manufacture devices which could be plugged into ears and will play music based on your blood pressure (a good indicator of your emotions).

On a more serious note, this sense would be helpful in various circumstances. You would be able to change your mood by forcing your mind to play a different tune. Psychotherapists would be able to heal patients by stimulating their sixth sense to play motivating and high energy tunes. To make people sympathetic towards the social issues, the sixth sense could be stimulated to play some tragic tunes. On the other hand, terrorist organizations would have another tool to brain-wash innocent people.

Nonetheless, I believe, the sixth sense would be a very fascinating sense. Don't mind the negative side affects of the sixth sense because to overcome the negative side-affects, Gandhiji would have four monkeys (instead of three), which will say – I see no evil, I hear no evil, I speak no evil and I play no evil.

(Please let me know if you have more creative ideas for the working of this sixth sense.)