A woman says she is no longer afraid of death – not since she saw herself slip out of her body and float to a place where ‘nothing mattered’. Willow Caelan, 34, had just finished her first day at her new job when a car rear-ended her vehicle and she had a near-death experience . After her body was ‘launched 40 yards’ from her car and into oncoming traffic, a semi-truck hurtling towards her could have been the last thing she ever saw.
Willow’s Nissan Sentra was destroyed and she had suffered torn muscles, a concussion, temporary vision loss and a compacted spine. Yet Willow, from Michigan, says she felt anything but pain. ‘I felt like I was just pure consciousness and love, not a human with a body,’ she said.
‘It was almost like I was floating into a void to be connected with god or some form of the greater universe. ‘I couldn’t see or hear anything but I remember it being dark, comforting and warm. It was incredibly relaxing.
‘I was finally at peace – no longer worried or questioning anything – it was like heaven.’ Witnesses thought that she was dead – until she opened her eyes. She said: ‘Everyone was in complete disbelief, especially as no one came to check on me since it was almost certain that I wouldn’t have survived.
‘My car was a complete mangled wreckage but I somehow came out eerily unscathed. An unexplainable force saved me. ‘I feel that I woke up in an alternate timeline or reality where I had somehow stayed alive.
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