Twin Brother Saved Me

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Story type: Out of Body Experience
Location: Chicago
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Mon Nov 17 01:40:01 2008

In the summer of 1988, I was a patient at Northwestern Hospital in Chicago after having my neck broken. It was the day after major surgery to my neck and was still in ICU recuperating.

Around 1:00 in the morning, I felt my body lift from my hospital bed and feeling really light. I remember being scared that I would fall since I could not feel the bed under me. My body was floating above the bed and all of a sudden, I saw a bright colorful light. The light was so bright and beautiful. Then as I walked to this light, a man wearing a black suit, white shirt, black tie with dark black hair and a crooked teeth smiling at me. I think it was the way he smiled that made me wary of him.

He told me to come into the light as he waved his arm for me to walk with him. I told him, "no". There was something strange about him that I did not trust. All of a sudden he grabbed me and we struggled. He grabbed one of my legs and as he was pulling me into the light, my body was gasping for air. I was trying to breathe and it felt like I was drowning. The more he pulled me into this light, I was gasping for air.

Then, all at once...I was pulled back from this light and back to my body. I opened my eyes and pressed the call button to get a nurse. I was hysterical to say the least. I was crying and coughing, like I needed oxygen. I told the nurse I think I died and she said I didn't.

At 9:00 am, I called my twin brother who lived in Los Angeles and explained to him about my unusual ordeal that morning. He said, "I know. I know about your dream."

I said, "You mean you saw this man too?" Then he said, "No, I wasn't able to take a good look at him because your body was blocking him. But I was the one who pulled you back from the light. I knew you were in trouble and I helped you." Oh my gosh! I was getting chicken skin! We then determine that as this was happening to me at 1:00 in the morning in Chicago, that he was having this same dream at 11:00 at night in L.A.! We were both shocked and scared at the same time! Who was this man that I saw? What did this all mean?

Was it a bad dream? An out of body experience? I don't know. It's been 20 years since that experience and I will never forget it. Nor will I ever forget the man that I saw. I remember every single detail of this man's face. It's something I can never forget.

The nurses and doctor's think it was from my morphine, but how can you explain that my twin brother had this same dream! I think my brother saved me that night. From what? I will never know.