I'm alive because I saved myself.

I had a dream one night my senior year of high-school where I was watching myself from outside my body in the dream, as though I was a floating spirit. I was running late for something and the weather was terrible. It was super windy and raining hard. I took out my phone to call on older lady.

"Hey, I wanted to let you know I'm going to be late because I want to drive safe in this weather." I explained to her, hoping she would understand.

"I'm in no rush. You get here when you get here. I'll see you soon." the lady says. My dream then skips to me driving my car. I was watching myself drive from the back middle seat of the car. As I'm driving up a hill I watch the roof of my car collapse on top of me and it forces me to wake up. I had this dream 6 months before the day that this was supposed to happen, or maybe I had that dream because I wasn't meant to die that day. After having that dream I brushed it off because I didn't think it meant anything other than it was just a dream.

6 months later: In the month of October of 2014, I'm running late to help an older lady clean parts of her house that she can't get to as easily as I could. It was extremely stormy outside, so I had the thought to call her, but instead I told myself that I knew how to drive in this weather and didn't call her. I finished getting ready and left to get to her house. As I was driving I felt like there was something or someone sitting in the back middle seat of my car. I'm empathic so spirits tend to be drawn to me, but this felt different. I tried to just ignore it, and felt that I wasn't supposed to look at it for some reason so I fought the urge to look in my rear view mirror at whatever could possibly be there. Then I heard something tap the back bumper of my car, and whatever I felt was there in the middle seat of my car seemed to be gone so I looked in my rear view mirror to see a tree had broken and fell on the telephone pole, knocking that over and across the entire road. I then remembered the dream from 6 months before, and became extremely emotional. I had to pull over to let authorities know about the telephone pole being across the road so that was the main reason I pulled over, but I had goosebumps and was crying, knowing that I had evaded death by just seconds. I don't know what wanted me to see what I saw in my dream. I don't know if it was truly trying to save me, or if it was just showing me how I would die because it wanted to. Maybe that was the day I was supposed to die and I'm alive but shouldn't be. I wonder if maybe I've lived this life before and my spirit wanted to warn me of what could've happened, because maybe it did in a past life of mine. Since that day I've felt like death or something dark is following me. It's not around all the time, but I'm very careful of what I do with my life. I feel that karma plays a huge role in me being alive, because I've focused on doing good everywhere that I can without spreading myself too thin. I hope you enjoyed my hair raising near death experience and that it gives you a new or different perspective on how life really works.