When we lived in Arizona, we used to go on adventures in our car at night
(when it cooled off). We would drive out of the city and turn down small roads
that led into the deeper desert. It was an amazing way to explore. We saw wild
beasts and lots of snakes.
One night, as we were exploring, I suddenly felt this overwhelming sensation
that I wasn’t in my own body and I was shocked to be sitting there. At the
same time, I felt far removed from my body, as if I wasn’t really there. I
could barely see and I lost most of my hearing and touch. It lasted a brief
moment and then passed once I fought my way back through the cloud.
We drove around for awhile longer and then headed back home. When we got
toward the main road, I saw a fire on the other side of the road. Someone had
driven off of the main highway and their little Toyota truck was smashed and
turned upside down. The car was on fire. The desert was burning for about 10
yards in each direction. This had happened around the time that I had that
strange sensation. I was immediately freaked out.
I knew that the person in that truck had not survived and I wasn’t brave
enough to approach the truck to find out. I rushed to the nearest house and
asked them to call the fire department (this was before we had cell phones).
When we got back to the scene, the fire and police were cleaning up and the
EMT’s were putting a covered body into an ambulance.
This makes me wonder, was I briefly “visited” by this person the moment they
died? Was their spirit looking for somewhere to be because the body that it
was in had suddenly died? What would have happened if the person’s spirit was
stronger than mine? Would I have been “possessed”? Am I possessed and don’t
realize it? Did my brain retain any information about that person’s life? If
so, does that information affect my subconscious mind and my dreams?
I don’t think I believed in ghosts before that night. I still don’t believe in
apparitions, but I was definitely affected by this person’s death. We were the
closest bodies to the accident by miles, so maybe we were the only two
available.
If this is true, then what impact does death have for people living near
hospitals and other places where people often die? Are nurses and doctors
affected by this when they lose patients? Does this phenomenon only happen in
accidental and unexpected deaths? Maybe it happened because this person had a
traumatic end and wasn’t expecting it so they weren’t prepared to leave their
body.
I’m not sure if I’ll ever know for sure what happened, but it has had an
impact on my beliefs since then.