Is it possible to will yourself to live? I think so. I've heard of stories about cancer patients surviving and being cured simply because of their positive attitude towards life and themselves.

But what if you're caught in an emergency situation, where death is imminent within the next five milliseconds? You know, the kind where your life flashes before your own eyes. Can you will yourself to somehow survive that situation - to avoid all forms of inevitable disaster - and come out victorious in the end?

I think that happened to me today. When it was over - "it" having lasted 2 seconds - I wondered at how I was still alive. I came to the conclusion that the only way I was still alive and in one piece was because I had willed myself to live. I remember thinking determinedly, "I'm not going to fall into this disaster."