A woman has revealed how she time-travelled into a parallel universe and spent five years in the future after a life-threatening blood clot left her brain dead.
Rubi Rolgue felt like life was finally falling into place.
The 24-year-old had just gotten hitched, moved cities and was months away from finishing her degree in medical studies.
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But then, in an instant, it was all ripped away.
And Rubi, who was classed as clinically dead for 10 minutes, claims her current life was “erased” as she was transported to a parallel timeline for five years.
“I didn’t leap into another place or time,” the medical student told Need To Know.
“My life simply seemed to continue – day-by-day – from 2025 until 2030.
“The future world was more advanced and peaceful than the one I had left behind.
“We weren’t so dependent on mobile phones.
“Technology had automated common tasks so that people had more time for socialising.
“I still had my job, but I spent most of my time with my husband and the rest of my family.
“As the years passed, all of us got older, as we would have done during those five years.”
Rubi, from Mexico, had started her day in April 2025 like normal.
By midday, though, she was on the phone pleading to her husband, who she doesn’t wish to name, for help.
She wasn’t able to move her legs and was struggling to breathe.
Her oxygen levels quickly plummeted to 65% – which is lethal.
At the hospital, it was found she had suffered a bilateral pulmonary thromboembolism, where blood clots obstruct arteries in both lungs.
She said: “I don’t remember anything about this day.
“It’s a complete blank.
“I was suffocating from within.
“Two massive blood clots had formed and blocked both my right and left pulmonary arteries.
“I had a total blockage.”
At 10pm, Rubi had her first cardiac arrest and just five hours later, her heart stopped beating.
She said: “This time, I was clinically dead for more than ten minutes.
“When doctors restarted my heart, my pupils were dilated and fixed; showing no reaction to light or stimuli.
“I was declared brain dead.
“They told my parents there was nothing more they could do.”
It was planned for Rubi to be transported back home, where she would remain on life support indefinitely.
In her alternate reality, though, things were also turning dark.
She said: “I suffered a traumatic attack by three men at a party in this timeline.
“I ended up in hospital in that world, too, as if my trauma was echoing across both realities.
“It was painful, complicated and exhausting.”
Suddenly, her body “zapped” back into the physical world as she passed through a “hellish” tunnel filled with her greatest fears.
A light flashed twice, which she touched, and brought her back to life.
Rubi, however, was not relieved to be waking up.
She said: “That was my real hell – waking up in this life.
“I had multiple surgeries during my coma, but I never felt a thing.
“The pain came when I woke up.
“I was unable to speak, told I had permanent brain damage and that I would never walk again.
“Everyone was shocked to see me back.
“I was confused when I saw my brother, as he looked so much younger than he did the last time I had seen him – in 2030.
“I was so afraid of the attackers in the other world that I pleaded for help.
“Soon, I realised I had been in a coma for a month and that the other world wasn’t real.
“It took me quite a while to understand I had time-travelled.”
Now, she’s sharing her story in search of answers and to show people that death isn’t truly the end.
She added: “I’ve felt a deeper spiritual connection than I had before.
“Sharing my story has allowed me to bring hope to so many people who are looking for answers.
“Death is not a wall – but a doorway to a life that never truly ends.”
