allMIGHTY: I've experienced a couple of similar experiences, so know what you're talking about. I felt the touch, also. Not imaginary, not
'sixth sense'. No, actual physical 'contact' with something/someone unseen. And like you, I was saved by that 'touch' from severe physical
harm; probable death.
It's something you don't forget, even many decades later.
It doesn't matter if others don't believe you, or suspect you're embroidering the story.
It happened and you know it.
And it changes things, doesn't it? Changes the way you view life and your tiny place in it. It is also often responsible, I'm sure, for people
afterwards taking an interest in the paranormal and things spiritual.
But the very nice thing about these experiences is the realisation and then certainty that we are not alone, no matter how alone we may sometimes
feel, before and even after the experience.
Because the fact that someone/something chose to step in save you -- humble you -- gives a new meaning to your existence. We may be just accidents of
birth and we may be unimportant in the general scheme of things, but we matter to someone/something. And the fact they were right there, at the
critical juncture, implies they are constantly there, watching over us. Which is amazing and something few of us believe --- until 'they' step in
and save us, thus revealing their presence in the process.
Of course, it may possibly be that the 'touch' you experienced was an astonishing manifestation of your larger Mind (which may well have been aware
of the danger to which you exposed yourself). That 'touch' may have been created, via muscles and sinew, BY your Mind, as a lightning-fast
intervention. But if so, it's still reason for optimism and celebration and means there's far more to 'you' than you might otherwise believe.
Like you, though, the 'touch' I experienced felt very much like the intervention of 'something/someone ELSE. I even fought against it, so
preoccupied was I in what I was doing. But the invisible hand held firm and did save me.
Great experiences, aren't they, in more ways than one