Have you ever almost died and had something inexplicable save you?

One cold winter’s night I went to sleep with the apartment’s gas heater turned low.

That night I had an incredibly vivid dream. In that dream, a doctor was examining my dead body. He was dictating a verbal autopsy. I heard him say, “The victim’s cause of death was asphyxiation due to gas poisoning. The pilot light went out, the apartment filled with gas and he never woke up.”

I woke up. It was after midnight. The apartment was ice cold, my vision was blurred and I was disoriented. I immediately opened up my bedroom window and breathed the outside air. Feeling a little better, I put on some warm clothes, walked past the heater and saw that the pilot light was out. I opened up all the windows, the doors and went outside.

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