Gary Wimmer Died in 1977, Saw the Future, and Says Don't Panic

The Day Before

In 1977, Gary Wimmer sitting with his roommates when he began "feeling what other people were going to ask and say." He went to bed but couldn't sleep. His mind raced like never before.

The next morning, his roommate walked in reading the newspaper. Gary saw the headlines through his eyes. He walked to the store a couple hours later and felt what every person on the sidewalk was thinking about. Unsolicited. Bizarre. But he also felt something else: a protection, guardian angels, something watching over him. They seemed to name themselves "the monitors."

He never saw them. Except once.

The Light on Guadalupe Street

Gary felt a warmth around him, opened his eyes, and there it was: a huge light shining down, six feet above him, physical enough that he thought if he had a ladder he could touch it. He looked around at the people watching. None of them acknowledged it. He didn't care. He looked back up.

The light appeared as a crystal table, maybe six inches thick. Through it, he saw the palms of seven beings, seven monitors, looking down at him. The light came through their hands. "They were in white robes, their faces kind of looked like gray, like they weren't male or female, as if to say our faces don't matter, it's our presence," Gary recalls.

They spoke in one voice. Seven beings, one deep voice. "Do you trust us?"

Gary said yes. Of course. They were the monitors, the ones he'd been feeling. But he didn't understand what was going on.

"Do you trust us?" they asked again.

Pedestrians watched him talk to empty air, concerned.

"It's the most real thing I've ever seen," Gary says.

A second or two later, a speeding car hit him head-on.

Outside the Body

Bam. He got hit, tumbling over the car. And then, suddenly, he was outside his body, watching it get tumbled. He felt a certain detachment, almost humor. "Well, that's me. That's just what goes on in life," he thought.

He started expanding in all directions. Not like an arrow. Like a balloon. A solid balloon. He saw the whole city of Austin. He saw the whole Earth contract inside him because he was expanding. His body was down there on Guadalupe Street, people hollering and screaming. He expanded through the solar system, through the whole universe, bigger and bigger.

He got to the edge of the universe, went outside of it. He felt himself pop out into a starry sky with infinite universes. The one he came from was just one among them. Then the whole infinite cosmos rolled up "kind of like a tunnel of light," and he felt himself shot through it.

By this time, awareness of "Gary" had stopped. It ended around the moment he saw his body tumbling over the car. What remained was pure sensation.

Infinite Mind

He came out on the other side into "this blue infinite void that was unbelievably peaceful and beautiful, and it was infinite mind."

This is the part that changed everything.

"Infinite mind is completely unlimited," Gary explains. "Nothing can constrain it, control it. It's all possibilities over all time and space, either manifested physically or not, but there's no limitation and there's nothing that can pose a limitation on it. And it's completely unbiased. It has no bias."

He understood something fundamental in that moment: "Either it existed, which it does, and everything exists, or it wouldn't have existed and nothing would exist. There's no in between. Either infinite or nothing. Guess which happened? Infinite."

He felt at one with it. He saw creation. Different universes. Different free wills, wishes, hopes, plans. The interconnectedness between thought, visualization, manifestation, free will, infinite time, infinite space. "I could go on and on and on," Gary says. "It was like you just rock it, you just get it. You just, you don't... it doesn't have to be in English or anything. You just understand it because you're part of it."

And then he realized: maybe he wasn't part of it. Maybe he was observing it.

He was pulled back.

Three Series of Pictures

Back through the tunnel of light. Back into this universe. He started collapsing. Time and space returned, but he had no idea who he was or where he was going. He felt a little apprehensive. Where he'd been was pretty nice.

As he got closer to the solar system, closer to Earth, he started seeing flashcards, pictures, spinning newspapers. They came in three series.

The first series was what we're going through now. He saw 9/11. He saw COVID-19. He saw global warming. He saw carnage in the country, people walking around with AK-47s. In 1977, nobody did that. "I saw that. I couldn't believe it. I said no, that's got to be a hallucination. Nope," Gary recalls.

He's not trying to freak people out. "I'm trying to say we're going through a big, big change, and there's a reason for it," he explains. "I saw all the craziness, all the confusion in the first series of pictures."

The second series showed the thousand years of peace. Exploring space. Solving a lot of our problems. We're headed that direction. It's a clumsy road. We have a long way to go. That's idealized love, space technology, no hatred. There's a big gap between where we are now (chaos) and where we're headed.

The third set of pictures was about him.

Then he saw his body and jumped back into it. Home.

The Return

He was in the middle of Guadalupe Street. People were screaming. The driver, a woman with long red hair, was leaning over him, hysterical. "Man, I'm trying to stop, I couldn't stop it, I didn't help you, break it out," she kept saying.

Gary had just been to heaven and back. He felt no pain. He felt great, although a little eerie. He jumped to his feet. The driver kept trying to grab him, hold him down, saying he was in shock. He wasn't in shock. He wasn't hurt. He didn't want to explain.

He shoved her away. He tried to ask the other witnesses if they'd seen the monitors. Nobody cared about that. They were worried about how the hell he got hit by a speeding car and jumped right to his feet talking like nothing happened.

Within five minutes, he was ready to go home. Then he heard the sirens. People told him to stay and talk to the police. He agreed.

When the police and ambulance arrived, they asked what happened. "Boy, did that open a can of worms," Gary says. As soon as he tried to explain why he wasn't hurt and what happened, nobody could believe it. And of course, he wouldn't have either. All the witnesses saw him talking to thin air, getting hit by a car, then jumping to his feet and talking like nothing happened.

They took him to the hospital. X-rays showed no damage at all. No injuries. Nothing.

Then a psychiatrist walked in from the emergency room. Gary knew him. He had premonitions about him. He knew his name, where he went to school. The psychiatrist started asking questions. Gary explained some personal things about the man and his son, about rearranging furniture last week, about his wife not liking the cutting down of the floor space.

"He said, 'How did you know that?' I said, 'I know everything,'" Gary recalls. "I knew his name and I was, I could tap into anything. The thing is, I couldn't turn it off. That's what had freaked me out. It was enjoyable, but it was too much."

The psychiatrist said they'd have to commit him to a psychiatric hospital. Gary's attitude was, "No problem. I don't care. I just been to heaven, man."

Ten Days in the Psych Ward

They put him in a 10-day mandatory commitment. He didn't resist. All the patients called him Mr. Smiles. He was happy all the time. He played piano for them. He entertained.

At the end of ten days, the psychiatrists got together to decide whether he'd have to stay another ten days or if he was okay. Gary told them, "Look, I know you folks don't believe what I went through, but I'm not changing my story. You're a psychiatrist, you ought to study this. Look at the record. I didn't even get a scratch. Didn't get hurt. Knew I wouldn't. If you can find a better theory than I got, I'm all ears."

They let him go.

Why Me?

From the moment it happened to this day, there's no way Gary can deny what happened. But he asked over and over: why me? Why me? Why me? No complaints. It was the most beautiful experience anybody could ever have. But why?

Eight months later, he was sitting on his porch playing guitar, still asking. He felt the guides, the monitors, near him. He didn't see them, but they shot a beam of light into his head like a laser. At the same time, they started speaking in that same deep voice, and he was reading it in his mind like movie credits rolling out into the distance.

They basically said: "You had this experience because you wanted it. You're always curious. You wanted to know. You asked. You're always learning, you're studying psychic, immediately, you know, reading education, modern, poloski, or doing everything you can to expand your knowledge, and so we took it, we showed you, we brought you back. You could handle the truth."

Moral of the story, Gary says: "Ask questions. Period. Ask and you shall receive. You don't get everything, but the more you ask and the more you ask your God to help you and the more you expand your consciousness and your umbilical cord that we all have between ourselves and infinite mind, everybody's got a unique one, but also there's only one place we came from: infinite mind. And only one place to return to: infinite mind. Everything in between that is an experience in separateness in some form or another."

What's Coming

People always ask Gary what images he saw that haven't come true yet. He saw so many images so quickly that he often doesn't recognize them until he sees the incident happen. He can't lay out with certainty exactly what's going to happen when. There was too much information too fast.

But he's clear about this: "We can't change the chaos the world's going through now, and the reason we're going through it: one simple reason. We all have to see the holes in the boat, the flaws in ourselves and in our systems, before we can fix them."

We're going through this period not by accident. "It's the opportunity that life is giving us to see what needs to be fixed so we can fix it," Gary explains. "We get to pay attention and heed the call or ignore it. You must have free will, and we can decide whether to pay attention, grow, evolve, use that opportunity, or to ignore it. It's a simple choice. Choice, choice."

He always says the most powerful thing in human nature is free will, because we get to choose how we see things, how we perceive things. "It ain't our situation, it's how we perceive it, because how we perceive it, how we look at it, means how we're going to act and react and either make it worse or better or move out of Dodge or make a change or not."

In spite of all the chaos, Gary encourages people: "Don't freak out. The world is going through a big change. We're part of it. Don't freak out. Don't limit yourself on how much power and light you can bring to yourself as a protection."

Using the Power

Gary believes everyone has psychic ability. Absolutely. He became aware of unlimited potential in a split second in 1977. When he touched infinite mind, it felt like he was there for infinity and came back to Earth only a second later, but having gone through one of the most incredible experiences ever.

He realized our power, our psychic and spiritual and emotional power, we gain on it, we grow. Not to get a gold star from God, but to make stuff work better in life, here, now, with us, with ourselves, with relationships.

Twelve years ago, Gary was looking for his keys. He had an appointment. He frantically went from room to room, pulling drawers out. Then he thought: "This is nuts. This brainic searching is not going to find my keys. I've been at it for 10 minutes, no closer. So I thought, okay, higher mind, synapses in my brain, soul, guides, y'all get together, just kind of pull me to the keys because it'd be a lot easier. It's a win-win. This ain't worth it."

He didn't know if it would work. But he knew if he didn't try, he'd never know. He walked from his office back into the kitchen, poured himself a cup of coffee, and looked over. There were his keys. He'd put them on the microwave. They must have fallen off.

The first thing he felt when he picked them up: "The keys kind of said to me, because I talk to my garage and I ask them to talk to me all the time, the keys said, 'Well, Gary, we can't walk, but your system works.'"

He's 75 now, kind of disabled, can barely walk sometimes. He certainly doesn't need to go walk around looking for stuff. Every time he's missing something, he just thinks about it, and within five minutes, a day before he'll frantically need it, it appears. "Why shouldn't life work that way?" he asks. "Why shouldn't we be able to get that power?"

Personally, he'd like to have the power to heal the world. But he can't. He can't stop war. "I can only, we can only, do our part. But if we do our part, we're doing the most important part," Gary says.

He encourages people all the time to open up to your infinite mind. "That's why we're going through all these changes now. See, humankind's not being tortured, it's being slapped in the face. Wake up. It all starts inside. Love yourself, forgive yourself, liberate yourself, pat yourself on the back."

That's how he learned to play piano. In three years, practicing 12 to 14 hours every day. He'd pat himself on the back at noon because when he started practicing at 10 o'clock, now he could do it. "Yeah, it makes your efficiency better."

"It's never, never, never how hard we work in life," Gary says. "It's how smart, it's how wise, it's how creative, it's open-minded, it's how inspired, it's how virtuous, it's how true to our core values, our hearts, our soul. Folks, believe you can climb that mountain. Ask for help. And don't be surprised if you start climbing that mountain."

What This Tells Us

Gary Wimmer's account stands out for several reasons. First, the precognitive element: the visions he saw in 1977 of events decades in the future, some of which have come to pass with eerie accuracy. This isn't uncommon in NDEs. Many experiencers report seeing future events, though the details are often fragmentary or symbolic. Gary's specificity (9/11, COVID, mass shootings) is unusual, and his insistence that these visions were literal, not metaphorical, makes his case particularly striking.

Second, the encounter with the monitors before the accident. Most NDEs begin with the trigger event (cardiac arrest, drowning, trauma). Gary's began with a day of escalating psychic awareness and a direct encounter with beings who asked for his trust seconds before the car hit him. This suggests the experience was orchestrated, not accidental. The monitors weren't waiting for him on the other side. They were already here, preparing him.

Third, the description of infinite mind. Gary doesn't describe a being or a deity. He describes a state, a limitless field of consciousness that contains all possibilities, all time, all space, with no bias and no constraint. This matches descriptions from other NDEs and from mystical traditions across cultures: the Tao, Brahman, the Ground of Being. It's not a place. It's what underlies all places. And Gary's key insight, that it either exists (and everything exists) or it doesn't (and nothing exists), is a philosophical observation that cuts to the heart of the question: why is there something rather than nothing? His answer, experienced directly: because infinite mind is.

Fourth, the aftermath. Gary returned with abilities he didn't have before: telepathy, precognition, the ability to locate lost objects by asking his higher mind. He spent 10 days in a psychiatric hospital and came out still smiling, still insisting on the truth of what happened. Decades later, he's still using those abilities, still teaching others to do the same. This isn't a story about a mystical experience that faded. It's a story about a permanent shift in how he engages with reality.

And finally, the message. Don't freak out. We're going through chaos because we need to see what's broken before we can fix it. The future is bright, but the road is clumsy. We have free will. We get to choose how we perceive what's happening, and that choice determines whether we make things better or worse.

This is not a message of doom. It's a message of hope grounded in a direct encounter with the infinite. Gary saw the chaos. He also saw the thousand years of peace. Both are real. Both are coming. We're in the gap. And the gap, hard as it is, is the point. It's where we learn. It's where we grow. It's where we remember that we're not separate from infinite mind. We're expressions of it, here to experience separateness for a while, and then to return home.

Gary's story is a reminder that the universe is not indifferent. It's not random. It's not cold. It's infinite, it's conscious, and it's watching. And when you ask, when you're curious, when you want to know, it shows you. Not because you're special, but because you asked. And that, more than anything else, is what Gary wants people to understand. Ask. Don't limit yourself. Don't freak out. The power is already there. You just have to use it.

You can learn more about Gary's work and book readings through his website at garywimmer.com. He's also shared his story in multiple interviews, including another detailed account with NDE Diary and a conversation with Pegi Robinson on NDE TV.