People Share Their Own Experiences Of What It Feels Like To Be In Coma

8 “It feels like nothing at all”

Redditor Amsterdance, did not feel anything at all. Basically, he had no memory of the whole experience and had no hallucinations or vivid dreams either. But one thing he clearly remembers is waking up which felt like a dream till the time his brain started registering the real world around him. The whole period passed on like nothing had happened. It was later on when he fully recovered he was told what actually happened to him. He felt that time just flew by as it does when one slumbers off.

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9 “In some cases, you continue everyday life in your head”

Redditor typical_villain was in a medically induced coma for a week due to a car crash and had his family beside him all the time telling him to calm down as he had been in a major car accident and he was in the hospital undergoing treatment. “In my dreams, I was going about my daily business of college classes and coffeehouses. The twist would be that I was introducing myself as having been in a bad car accident, but I was okay and in a hospital.”

It goes even weirder as in his dreams he would drop his pen and if his arms hurt the rest of the class would tell him to calm down as he has been in a car crash and is in hospital. In fact, the morphine-induced coma made him hallucinate that he himself went to his college town hospital and politely stood in front of the reception desk telling the attendants that he had been in a car crash but now he is ok and wants to check out. Incidentally, that’s when all the doctors and nurses crowded around him in utter chaos. He then woke up instantly. 

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10 “You Experience Semi-Lucid Dreaming

In this case, again the coma was medically induced and it wreaked havoc inside the patients head. Redditor BravoPapaWhiskey explains that he didn’t completely drift off but maintained his semi-conscious thought control somehow and registered the external stimulants which came and went. But half of his intoxicated head mixed up reality with dream resulting in a distorted sense of existence that was sometime pleasant other times not so much.

The terrifying part for this survivor was coming back to consciousness. He said it was a painfully slow process and it took several days for him to snap out of it clearly. When he actually realized he was alive and in Munich ICU he was shocked. This experience made him question the difference between his real life and the surreal mental state he was drifting into earlier which made him feel he was back from the dead. 

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11 “Sometimes, you only remember feelings”

This experience is quite different and strange as this Redditor Imnotrappaport: just remembered the medley of feelings throughout his 5 days coma. Hs feelings oscillated from hopelessness, despair to relief and even extremely happiness. Although he did not know what exactly was triggering these feelings, he felt they were vivid and palpable. 

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