This happened when I was still in elementary school.

It was the New Year's holidays, and I was at home in the living room eating with my family,

when my grandmother hugged me. However, the very

next moment, I was looking down at myself asleep, and I had no idea what was going on. But

suddenly, everything around me changed. Suddenly, I was standing somewhere about two kilometers

from home, and I was so shocked that I didn't know what to do.

I just stood there and cried.

Just at that moment, my grandfather, who was working, drove by.

Hey!

Hey!

I screamed at him, but he didn't notice and kept on driving.

I chased after him on foot.

After going straight, I turned right and kept following him for as long as I could see him.

As I turned the corner, I recognised where I was, and I ran all the way home.

The very next moment, I was lying on the ground, covered in sweat, my grandmother sitting next to me.

When I told my family what happened, they laughed at me.

But thinking on it now, there's no doubt that I'd had an out-of-body experience.

If so, they said, why did I end up in a place I'd never been before?

But the details of where I'd gone matched up perfectly with the real place.

It was the path opposite the day nursery, but when I asked my parents about it, they said

that area was dangerous, so they never let me go there.

This all took place at night, so I developed a fear of dark places after that.

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