I almost lost my life driving my car at 1am in the morning on the freeway after celebrating my sisters birthday earlier that evening. I fell asleep at the wheel going 90mph on cruise control. After falling-asleep on a straight-away, I woke up immediately once my car headed outside the lane and ran-off the road still going 90mph headed towards a ledge over an embankment aside from the freeway near Seacliff Drive. When I woke up, I had a split-second to choose whether I wanted to brake (and risk skidding over the ledge anyways), or turning my wheel immediately to hopefully avoid going over the cliff. I decided to turn my wheel immediately and felt a G-Force unlike anything I’ve ever experienced twist my car sideways as it spun 45 degrees and then rolled 4 times and landed right-side up on all four wheels. I will never forget the feeling of being in my car as it flipped and pounded into the ground and continued rolling, it felt like I was in a washing machine of glass as everything shattered, broke and scattered in the air, while I stayed locked-into my seat belt as the glass shard flew everywhere around me, while my head kept slamming into the side panel of the frame; each impact was thrusted by the cars’ momentum. The whole thing happened so fast, by the time it ended seconds later, the whole car was a wreck, I remember a cool breeze drifting onto my face.
After I realized what had happened, in the still and darkness of the night, a glimmering light was ever-so visible, it gave me a sudden sense of calmness, and a sense of security, safety and serenity overcame the body shock. I’m not religious person, but I felt the presence of God, or something similar as I sat in my drivers seat, it felt as though a spirit or my soul was lifted-out from me as I sat there and felt at total ease, with all the stillness of the present moment. I literally had seen my whole life “flash” before my eyes, as the car rolled every highlight clip of my life played on a cinema screen through my head quickly from before my birth in the womb, through the moment my car began to flip and roll-over. Sitting alone in my car and realizing I had cheated death, because I had on my seat belt, although I still could have died, I felt at total peace with myself. A feeling of contentment and ease overcame me and although my heart was pumping hard and glass was stuck in my head, my left eye was punched-black and blue and completely shut and my arms were bleeding profusely from the shard glass, there was a huge feeling of happiness for the life I had lived until that point. No negative feelings or emotions were being experienced like anger, animosity, embarrassment, humiliation, revenge or anything else. I felt tranquil, peaceful, content and enlightened. The feeling of near-death is nothing I’ve ever experienced. Total calmness, tranquility, solace with myself and where I was, despite all the trauma that had occurred and injuries.