Having gone to the US to go to school at age 12, by 1982 he was studying biology in university when he had a head-on collision on a California highway with a car driving the wrong way. He passed out and nearly died, and he can still remember a feeling of floating above his body.
十二歲赴美求學的陳家恩，大學主修生物，一九八二年他在加州高速公路上，迎面和開錯車道的車相撞，整個人當場昏死，他還感覺自己身體浮了起來。