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eugene_vn · 10-11-2008, 04:23 PM

Funny you pose this question, since it's only been in the past year that I have been apt to understand a strange experience years ago as an instance of jumping a timeline.

About ten years ago, I was riding a bicycle through a major intersection where the traffic was composed of bicycles, motorcycles, cars, and lorries. This was in Southeast Asia so it wasn't strange to ride a bicycle on this street. Moreover, there was no street light or stop sign: In typical Vietnamese style, everyone just plowed into the intesection and negotiated one on one with the oncoming traffic.

Perhaps I was lost in thought about something or other as I turned left through the intersection, but right around the middle of the intersection I noticed that a lorry was heading straight for from the cross street at high speed. I was shocked since I hadn't seen it coming. Instinctively, I shut my eyes and jerked the bike hard to the right. I really didn't expect to survive.

A couple seconds later, I opened my eyes and felt an extreme sense of lightness and giddiness. At first I thought I probably hadn't made it. I slapped my left arm and yes, I could still feel. I shouted alound and I could still hear. Then I looked back towards the lorry - and there was none there! The other bicyclists around me appeared completely normal.

This happened on an otherwise uneventful afternoon, and I was in good health. For years I just logged it away as an anomalous event. Recently, however, I have started to speculate that perhaps in one timeline I did die that day, yet somehow my life as I now experience it is on a different timeline in which there was no lorry.

10-11-2008, 04:23 PM	#15
eugene_vn Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 31	Re: As your Timeline Changes, are People, Places, and Things Disappearing? Funny you pose this question, since it's only been in the past year that I have been apt to understand a strange experience years ago as an instance of jumping a timeline. About ten years ago, I was riding a bicycle through a major intersection where the traffic was composed of bicycles, motorcycles, cars, and lorries. This was in Southeast Asia so it wasn't strange to ride a bicycle on this street. Moreover, there was no street light or stop sign: In typical Vietnamese style, everyone just plowed into the intesection and negotiated one on one with the oncoming traffic. Perhaps I was lost in thought about something or other as I turned left through the intersection, but right around the middle of the intersection I noticed that a lorry was heading straight for from the cross street at high speed. I was shocked since I hadn't seen it coming. Instinctively, I shut my eyes and jerked the bike hard to the right. I really didn't expect to survive. A couple seconds later, I opened my eyes and felt an extreme sense of lightness and giddiness. At first I thought I probably hadn't made it. I slapped my left arm and yes, I could still feel. I shouted alound and I could still hear. Then I looked back towards the lorry - and there was none there! The other bicyclists around me appeared completely normal. This happened on an otherwise uneventful afternoon, and I was in good health. For years I just logged it away as an anomalous event. Recently, however, I have started to speculate that perhaps in one timeline I did die that day, yet somehow my life as I now experience it is on a different timeline in which there was no lorry.