Written Confession: Surviving a Car Wreck That Never Happened
The following written confession was shared via Reddit by alexsangthat:
So I don’t really know how to explain this or if it even fits on this sub or even what actually happened if I’m being honest, but regardless I will try to relay the story.
I was driving to work yesterday morning and I’m coming up a side street that connects to a very busy road in my area. It’s the main road that stretches through like 20 towns. I get to the red light at this main road and sit there for about 15 seconds before seeing a car pull up behind me.
As the car comes to a complete stop behind me, my eyes drift from the rearview mirror to the stop light in front of me. It was red still. I then looked down to my radio clock and it says 7:36 and, this is going to sound strange, but for a period of time that seemed to stretch on until infinity, I kind of felt like this intense pressure all around me, like I was zoned out and couldn’t clear my head or move my body because I was obsessed with the numbers I was seeing, like I was in a trance or something and it wasn’t silent around me but it was at the same time, like very very loud, pressing silence. I couldn’t move but I also wasn’t trying to move, almost like I was paralyzed with fear and knew I was frozen but couldn’t really process it or try to move. Idk. I really can’t explain it. Even now it’s so confusing to me.
After who knows how long of being stuck in this trance, suddenly everything snaps back to normal. Instantly. The very first thing I register is that the person behind me is laying on their horn. I look up and see the light is green. I begin to drive forward, feeling completely 100% normal again, and once I get into the middle of the intersection, I sensed this large presence to the right (correction: left) of me. I turned my head to look out my driver side window just in time to see a huge truck coming right at me. it hits me and I could feel my body break. I felt and heard so many of my bones get absolutely crushed. Suddenly I’m upside down in my car, in so much pain I can hardly breathe, covered in glass and I can hear someone screaming. The last thing I remember before I passed out about 10 seconds later was seeing cop lights and distinctly thinking to myself “wow, how did they get here so fast?” (this is important)
The next thing I remember, I open my eyes and I’m sitting in my car at the red light. The intense pain I felt a moment ago is fading fast BUT it’s still there, only almost like a ghost version of itself if that makes sense?
I’m intensely confused at this point and I start looking around in a panicky way, and my eyes trail across the clock again. It says 7:36 and I’m just….I’m beyond confused. I KNOW it wasn’t a day dream. It was so god damn real. I’m frozen in place staring at the clock trying to figure out what the fuck just happened. After about 5-10 seconds, I hear the person behind me start to beep at me but I’m shaking and about to cry and so overwhelmed with leftover fear that I can’t even react to it. They start to lay on their horn and I still can’t move because I’m just so confused and frightened.
Now at this point I was starting to calm myself down and trying to rationalize what happened. I was beginning to convince myself that it had to have just been a day dream, it was early enough and I was tired enough that I even started to think I just nodded off at the red light and dreamed the crash. What the hell else could have happened right? If it weren’t for what happened next I probably would have been able to go the rest of my life believing I had fallen asleep and dreamed it.
The moment the clock turned 7:37, like the very second the numbers changed, a huge truck comes barreling through the light, definitely speeding. They ran their red light and crossed right in front of my car. A few seconds later a cop, who must have just been driving behind the truck in the first place, runs the red light as well, turning on his lights in the process and beginning to pursue the speeding truck. They both drove out of my view within a few seconds.
I was so shaken I just pulled my car to the side of the road right where I was and sat there in silence for I don’t even know how long. Like what normal explanation could I possibly come up with for this? There isn’t one. I hadn’t seen the truck or the cop car before they ran the light in front of me, so how did the “dream” crash I had include those very specific and very REAL details? The entire area I live in is covered in trees, so it’s not like I can see very far down the road in either direction. I know for a fact I did NOT see the truck or the cop car before I experienced the crash.
I’m still so shaken. How do I rationalize this experience to myself? I feel disillusioned by something but I don’t even know what. I feel like I’m going crazy. I needed to share this with people who won’t automatically dismiss this as a hallucination or a dream.
