The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/StoicLaddie on 2025-02-14 21:07:46.

Strange event from my past, thought I saw myself die

So around 3 and a half years ago I was hiking on the Isle of Skye, close to the summit of the epic Munroe Blà Bheinn. I was using walking sticks and the hike was getting crazy, wind was picking up and I had a hairy ascent up an area of skree and then had about 0.5 mile until the peak. This last section was effectively bouldering over these huge (and I mean huge) rocks. It was too difficult to traverse with my walking sticks so as I got to this ledge of a large boulder, I placed my sticks down at a spot where I thought it would be easy to grab on the way back down.

So then I started pulling myself up this ledge, like doing a chin-up and then eventually getting myself up on to. Just as I was getting to my feet I heard a simply horrifying sound of grinding boulders from above (I’m getting goosebumps writing this), and it was clear that I had somehow disturbed the rock formation and boulders were about to fall down from above. I have no idea what happened really from then, it was like I went out of my own body and next thing I know I was standing to the left of the rock formation on some grass which I didn’t know was there before, and I watched as these massive boulders slid down and crushed the place where I had left my walking sticks. I have never felt anything like it , I felt an icy chill on my bones it was like I should have been crushed at that moment but somehow I wasn’t. I can picture the event that could have occurred and can almost feel my last moments if it had went the other way and I hadn’t moved in time. I would have never met my two kids if this happened so I am super grateful but I have this weird feeling that a quantum “me” was actually crushed under there and went down as another sad hiking stat.

Anyway felt good to type that out and think more deeply about it!!!