Parallel world. United States

The witness was involved in an unavoidable head-on collision with a drunk driver. After being trapped in the wreckage for several hours the witness was at a local trauma unit, utterly immobilized, for almost 2 hours. He had apparently suffered a major injury to the Atlas vertebra and the attending specialist explained to him that any movement in his part could be fatal. Later that night the witness was wide awake counting panels in the ICU ceiling, when suddenly his vision just shut off. Then he felt a sudden sense of acceleration, which grew faster and faster, he thought he was dying at this point. Then a voice—or more precisely, an “outside thought” spoke: “Release the fear.” He was able to relax and as soon as he did, the acceleration stopped and his vision returned.

He found himself alone, standing in a long rectangular room or chamber, made entirely of stone. Floor, ceiling, and walls everything was made of green stone. He was lucid and started examining the wall, peering at it and touching it. Although the stone was a deep green color, its surface was a glistening crystalline, with very minute facets, like granite. Turning around 360 degrees, looking up and down, he noticed that there were no doors or windows in the structure. At the far end of the stone chamber was a row of 7 evenly spaced stone pedestals, about 3 ft tall and three ft square each. Even though he could see very clearly there was no apparent lighting source in the chamber. At this point he became aware of another presence in the room, behind him.

Turning completely around, he saw nothing, but the presence remained behind him. It was not oppressive or evil, but it was “forceful”, as if trying to urge him toward a course of action…his attention was drawn to the far end of the chamber, and the “urging” became more insistent…then he was pushed toward the solid stone wall, and the sense of acceleration returned. Upon impact, he passed right through the stone into utter blackness. The acceleration continued through this blackness for a long time, it seemed, with the same unseen “presence” urging me on. Instantly a starscape appeared around him, unlike anything he’d ever seen before. It appeared to be a three-dimensional scene, with thousands of stars of different sizes and colors moving smoothly past him. Additionally, there was a billowing “veil” of translucent pastel colors that seemed to envelope his “body” without obstructing his vision. A thought came to his mind that he wanted to be somewhere else. Instantly, the starscape changed, but was replaced by another starscape with different constellations, and he was still sailing along at a fantastic clip. The presence was still behind him, and he could sense this in a powerful way. With determination, he again turned around and this time the “presence” was quite visible. The thing was a glowing sphere of warm orange light. It was very three-dimensional in appearance, with reddish “corona” and a depth to its colors. And it was “looking” at the witness, expectantly. It had no eyes, no nothing, but the witness had the sense that the sphere was conscious—even sentient—and was waiting for him to make the next move. His next move was to reach toward it with his hand and ask: “What do you want?” In apparent response to his question the thing started gliding to his right and suddenly his “real” vision returned, he was back in ICU. The next day he was told that he neck was not broken and that he had suffered no cranial or brain injuries. Apparently the injuries originally found were from old childhood injuries, which the witness has no recollection of.