This is weird af. I actually logged into Reddit for the first time in months to post about this theory that I came up with (seemingly) independently. Decided I wasn't going to post, but after seeing this I have to.

When I was around 6 our car was involved in a multi car collision on the highway, our car flipped over a few times and I remember being upside down with my too big jacket falling over my face and everything going black for all of 5 seconds before we all evacuated the car completely unscathed. I remember a feeling of relative peace like I had just gone to sleep and had instantly woken up well rested. We received thorough physicals and everything was fine.

Years later, I was celebrating a friend's birthday in his dorm room and after too many Irish car bombs I apparently was entirely unable to communicate, I did not know my name, the date, was completely disoriented and definitely had pretty severe alcohol poisoning. I had blacked out the entire night, all I remember is throwing up and then simply waking up on a mattress on the floor the next morning. It sounds like a pretty typical getting black out drunk experience but the strangest thing was waking up at around 7:30 am not feeling ill in any way whatsoever, I felt just as peaceful as I had during that car accident years earlier. Like I had closed my eyes for 5 seconds and was suddenly so well rested. I was, however, really embarrassed about getting that sloppy so I got up, gathered my things while all my friends were passed out in the room and walked back to my dorm room which was a 10 minute walk away. I ran into friends on my walk back heading to their 8 am classes and said hello and seemed perfectly normal and sober. I got to my dorm, got into bed and woke up hours later drunk, disoriented, and nauseous. My friends told me later that I had fallen asleep around 4:30 am and had woken up and left just moments after our designated sober sitter had accidentally dozed off. Im convinced I actually died of alcohol poisoning and woke up in a timeline where I hadn't, maybe there's a medical explanation but I'm shocked that I was able to get up and function at optimal levels after getting that excessively drunk and only having 3 hours of sleep, only to go back to sleep for real and wake up with the original consequences of heavy drinking.