We've all heard stories of the multiverse and how there are, most likely, an infinite number of universes parallel to ours. This story probably trumps all the weird paranormal activities that have surrounded me my entire life.
A slight backstory on myself and when this particular event occurred. I've been haunted, literally my entire life, by entities and other abnormal phenomenon. I've written some of those on the Yourghoststories page, but this was beyond all of that. As of writing this I am 29 and I work at a family business in Northern Ohio. This "event" occurred almost 7 years ago, when my son was still just an infant.
My wife and I had recently moved in with my mother and step father out in the country, as we weren't financially stable with just my income as a Phlebotomist at a local hospital. Everything seemed normal, other than a few paranormal experiences here and there, but in my wife's and my lives, that's about as normal as it gets.
One particular night, I went to bed with an uneasy feeling, but brushed it off as anxiety from work. I remember falling asleep, and as I did I was floating directly behind someone else, but was disoriented, almost as if someone flashed a strobe light in my face moments beforehand. After adjusting "my" eyes, I realized I was at my grandparents' house about 6 miles away. The person I was following turned around, and I saw it was myself. When the other me looked in my direction, they gave no indication that they saw me. I looked down at my hands, and saw nothing, as if I was invisible to my own "astral?" form. I also instinctively knew I was naked while in this astral form.
Then the sky turned eerily dark, and I saw this "other me" look outside the window and all I recall is a loud crash or explosion rocked my grandparents' house. My other self must have died, because we were now in this immense darkness, that literally seemed to stretch on forever. I couldn't see him, but he kept screaming "help!" into this void we were in. The next thing I saw I will NEVER forget. 9 stars slowly came into view, almost in a half circle around us, and they kept getting closer and closer to us. Finally they stopped, and my other self asked who they were. One spoke in a male voice that didn't sound threatening but stern, and it told "him" that "he was dead". Then a female voice from another star spoke and said they were sorry, but he had to die at that moment. At this point I was so confused I wasn't sure what to do, and began to panic that I would be trapped in this void forever. One of the stars must have noticed, because I knew they were talking to me when a different male said "you should not be here" and whatever flowed through my astral form's veins went cold. In an instant I was hurtling through what can only be described as a tunnel of swirling colors. At the other end was a bright white and as I slammed into it I woke up, at around 5am, next to my wife and son in his crib.
I woke my wife up to tell her the entire story, because unlike a dream, where I and probably most people forget 99% of the story after waking, I could recall everything that had happened. It took a few weeks before my wife allowed me to go to my grandparents' house alone, because in her mind, it was a premonition. I don't believe that though, because the world I was in seemed so "alien" to me. Almost like inside I knew I was somewhere different. If anyone has had a similar experience, I'd like to know about it. I've heard of stories recently of people accidentally going to parallel universes, but no one has ever talked about 9 Stars or the void in which they were. If anyone else has seen these or experienced them, please give any info you can, it has puzzled me for years.