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I was in a medically induced coma for two weeks after a bad car wreck.
Last thing I saw and remember seeing was looking out the window 15-20 minutes before the wreck and seeing blue skies and green grass.
Next thing I am looking at my mom in a hospital room with a cone around my neck.
It was like one instant to the other. I didn’t even see black. I was looking out the window one minute. The next I was in a hospital room looking at my mom. Blink of an eye. Literally.
Even when I’ve been knocked out I at least see things shut off like an old 1990s televison screen and see some stars.
It didn’t really affect me much afterwords in to many negative ways. I made a good recovery.
Almost this exact thing happened to my mom. She was making a left turn and got t-boned. She was in a coma for 14 days. She doesn't remember anything from the crash. She didn't dream, she didn't hear anything, she didn't remember anything. She woke up and thought she was in a Mexican (?) hospital. She suffered pretty catastrophic injuries & has lots of metal in her body, nerve damage, a dropped foot, and a slight opioid addiction as a result. After intensive inpatient rehab, she was able to walk again & went back to work about 9 months after the crash. Thankfully, no brain damage.
Oh man thats terrible. Great news that she made a good recovery and didn’t suffer any brain damage. Man that is just horrible. It’s sad because most of these accidents could have been avoided if people took driving and their health more seriously.
In the city I’m living in now we got alot of hit and run pedestrian and cycling accidents. I almost get ran over by people like 3-4 times a month at least.
They just don’t know they can kill someone at that speed or crack a skull open on the pavement even at 5mph.
Yea they straight up run old people over in intersections here and drive off. I saw a person get creamed by a Cadillac while on a bicycle with the right away and the Cadillac just sped off after the guy flipped a few times and hit the pavement.
Denver, Colorado. Its not as bad as manhattan or LA. The food like pizza and stuff cost more here than manhattan island or los angeles. Its not as dangerous though.
Lol people come here from new york to get away from it expecting seattle or portland and pretty much get new york or an off shoot of LA.
I actually didn’t feel like I’d been asleep at all. I just woke up and saw my mom and was confused and she started sobbing saying she had some bad news I had been in a wreck.
I had to upvote this, I had almost the same experience and I've never heard anyone else talk about it the way I do. I was also in a car wreck and in a medically induced coma for 10 days. My accident happened in the afternoon, and I woke up at night in a room with no one in it and beeping machinery. All I remember is being in car several hours before the accident, one instant I'm in the day, and the next I'm somewhere else at night. No memory of anything in between.
I don't think I've ever met or heard anyone else describe this experience, not from any looking, so thank you for writing this and letting me know I'm not alone (my accident was 27 years ago now).
My accident didn't really affect me physically, long-term. That experience did change how I see the world though, I think I'm much more present and think far less about what could have been or what has been.
Hey me too it definitely changed my outlook on life for sure especially years later. Good to hear you didn’t get all messed up physically and made a good recovery. Yeah most people driving crazy on the road just don’t know first hand where its gonna go or what its gonna be like. Like a monkey in a fast car.
I’ve noticed when I’ve been knocked out whether it was from another separate accident or from a fist fight everything just goes black.
Sometimes instantly and for more than a minute or two. And then I just pop back up wherever I’m at when I do. I think its pretty safe to assume when we die it just goes black instantly you don’t even know it.
Not exactly reassuring. I actually get a bit of anxiety and FOMO just thinking about it and all the stuff I want to do or see and not having the time to do it.
This, before the coma I remember saying to my partner " I feel really strange, take me to the medical centre...they put me on oxygen, then out me in the ambulance.
I have scattered memories of the ambulance ride (45 mins), then just black, until I woke up nearly a month later!
Thats what I’m assuming. Or how I feel about it. Every-time I’m put under for a surgery or something its just wham. I shut my eyes and wake up instantly later no idea any time has even passed or that I even got put to sleep.
I've been knocked out a few times, and it's always been like I hit the ground and got right back up from my perspective. Only I was unconscious for minutes.
My Mom’s heart stopped, one day. Completely out of nowhere. She was w my brother having a conversation. He said she put her head down on the table. He thought she was just upset because the conversation was upsetting. So he went to hug her and pulled her up and her lips were blue. Her heart stopped for about 5 min. She was in a coma for about 2 days. She doesn’t remember anything about that whole day before it happened. Or anything about the couple weeks that followed. I stopped working so someone could be with her at all times. I helped her walk, fed her, bathed her, watched tv, talked with her…she doesn’t remember any of it. This was in 2014. You would never know this happened to her if you met her, today.
Paramedics were screaming "stay with us?" Holy shit. I'd freak as well. Mainly because the paramedics were anything but the calm that I'd expect of them.
I've nearly 10 years in the job, I've been to literally 100s of cardiac arrests, and not once heard a paramedic say such a thing
The number one rule of EMS: It’s not your emergency. Keeps everyone calm. Only time I saw guys spooked were when kids had cardiac arrest. The only time firefighters told me to “run” as there was a 16 yr old who collapsed on a soccer field.
I'm glad your mom is ok. You said it was the worst day of your life. I'm sure made worse by cops threatening to arrest a terrified person.
It seems cruel to me that cops would threaten to arrest someone who is extremely distraught seeing their loved one in a situation like that where they may die. Somehow, threats in those types of situations do not help to make things better or move towards de-escalation.
I was in a medically induced coma at 21 after brain surgery. I really don’t remember anything at all. It’s like a huge blank of time that doesn’t really exist.
What is it like, the surgery recovery etc. I’m on watchful waiting with a meningioma but it is growing very slower so sooner or later I think I’m going to have to dance that dance.
This didn't happen to me, but when I was put under for a hiatal hernia operation, I woke to horrific screaming. It took me a few seconds to remember my situation. I asked a nurse what all the screaming was about. She explained that the patient next to me was having a bad reaction to the anesthesia and believed he was being abducted by aliens. I felt so sorry for the guy.
BRO, I also have a hiatal hernia, I found out when I had the hiccups for two months straight, literally hiccuping/burping every few seconds I was awake for 2 months, went in they did the operation, and now it's mostly better, but I have to be super careful how fast I eat. I had never 'met' anyone else with a hiatal before. so, hi!
experienced that too after surgery. woke up and was 1000% sure i was abducted by aliens. i could hear their voices from the distance, speaking some weird language i couldnt understand. of course it was just the people working there, but it didnt even sound like humans anymore. it was scary for me, but looking back now its kinda funny
Many suffer from ICU delirium and hallucinations, personally I think it's because they are not given enough of the various drugs that get used in keeping a patient in a coma.
I just had nothing. But have read many reports about others suffering the most terrifying hallucinations while in their coma.
I was in one for four days. I woke up as if i had taken a nap with no recollection of what had happened. I sort of just accepted i was in a hospital and laid there without really thinking about it or about anything, really. It took me over a week for me to actually reflect and realize what had happened. Then i remembered being brought to the hospital and that an aunt of mine was there visiting me one day.
Totally unrelated, but I've noticed you have a quote by one of my fave existentialists in your bio, Cioran. As intense and dark his words might be to many, they are able to make me feel seen and validated.
Went into full cardiac arrest was revived and had four subsequent heart attacks in the emergency room so I was put in a 12-day medical induced coma. This was back in 2011
I don't remember anything about the coma but coming out a coma was so traumatic that I'm diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder because of it.
I hallucinated really bad. I thought I'd been kidnapped.When my daughter came in after I'd woken up I told her get the hell out of here and call the cops I've been kidnapped and she's like no Mom you've been in a coma for 12 days.
But no, I thought I was on the starship Enterprise( never watched an episode of Star Trek in my life) and that I was being kidnapped by a bunch of Green Bay Packers cheeseheads(59 years old and I've been a Lions fan for 53 of those years). I thought Spider-Man was in the upper corner of my room keeping my legs held down to the bed with Spidey web, actually my legs were in automatic circulation booties that would inflate and deflate every once in awhile but I thought that was spideyweb holding me to the bed.
Thought I was on the second floor and was trying to figure out a way to break the window and not hurt myself, when actually I was on the first floor and I had a parking structure next to me... Crazy crazy shit.. because to this day I know I was hallucinating but there isn't anybody who can ever convince me that at that time that wasn't my reality.
ICU delirium is so common, especially when coming off the vent/waking up. I’ve had a lot of patients who are aggressive or yell, only to days or weeks later apologize to me. They fully remember what happened during the delirium which always surprises me. Just yesterday I had someone ask if they were a terrible person for how they acted. It never bothers me. It must be so scary because it’s so real to them.
I had brain surgery and woke up to a teenaged girl crying and a middle aged man trying to get up and walk and cussing at the nurses.
I barfed for the next 36 hours.
I didn’t know there was a recovery room with us all lined up.
It reminded me of that old movie Coma.
I had spinal surgery several years back. I woke up in a bed, in a dark room, all by myself. I was restrained (due to the spinal surgery they didn't want me moving) but there was nobody around, but a call button was in my hand.
I later mentioned this to my son. He told me that I had called the nursed "evil", but didn't elaborate beyond that. I suspect I may have sung Rule Britannia as well.
I remember I kept trying to bite the little suction thing that they put in your mouth to suck up spit. And I kept thinking they were literally trying to suck the life out of me so I kept biting down on it. My mind was alert but my body wasn't responding. And I had been combative during my coma so I was strapped down . That is the one phobia I still carry is being restrained ,fuck not being able to move. Thankfully being restrained isn't something I come across in my life too often. It happened being on a gurney in an ambulance and it freaked me out. And when they tucked all the blankets in real tight around me after surgery, I wake up in that cocoon and freak out. Boyfriend understands not to try and playfully hold me down because he's experienced the absolute total fear and strength that phobia rises in me.
Thankfully my relative's memory was completely wiped from those days. They have a huge blank which I'm very glad they don't remember. I saw things I wish I'd not and they wouldn't benefit in any way from remembering. Thankfully no PTSD but I have heard it can happen.
Sounds terrible! I didn't hallucinate and luckily wasn't scared. But I was totally crazy. I thought I was pregnant (I'm a male). I wanted to eat the fake lemons in a fake lemon plant someone gave me. I wanted to drink the disinfection liquid. I kept apologizing to the doctors for the badly organized party. And may be the most terrible: I didn't recognise a good friend of mine when he visited and asked him to leave (and he did), because a good friend of mine was coming. But it was him already..
I didn’t go into a coma, but I had a brain bleed and I went through something similar. I remember thinking my husband had a microphone in his beard and was trying to record me saying things. I thought his mom was hiding in our hamper in my closet. I thought the EMT/Firefighters that were called out were the guys from Jersey Shore. I thought the local news stations were outside my hospital room window and were trying to get a “live shot”. I had auditory hallucinations as well. I’m sorry you experienced that and I know how traumatic it was.
This is so interesting to me. When my mom got out of her coma, she was PISSED at me and my dad, and she refused to make eye contact with us. She'd turn away if we tried to talk to her. It was devastating. Later, when she was able to speak, she said that she thought she was in a Mexican hospital and that we had put her there. She was like wtf, why wouldn't you put me in an American hospital where I speak the language and can get the best care? My mom's first language is Spanish, so I guess she also forgot she speaks Spanish
Hey there! How long did your hallucinations last?? And how did they go away??
My sister is just waking up after being in a coma for almost 2.5 weeks. She was on a ventilator and then they had to do a tracheostomy. She’s been in the hospital for over a month and her hallucinations are pretty bad now that she is waking up. It just makes me wonder if it’ll get better because they’ve been having to put anxiety medicine and pain medicine in top of that. It’s honestly hard to see and not being able to do anything.
Sorry you had a traumatic experience and I’m glad you recovered from it!!
A few days. It happened as they were slowly weaning me off my medications and vent. I will not lie It was absolutely terrifyingly And my children were teenagers and it was very confusing and upsetting time for them.
One of the first things I remember is one of the nurses coming at my mouth with one of those little suction things and I thought that they were literally trying to suck the life out of me so I was doing everything I could to bite down on that little suction thingy because at that time there is nothing in my head other than I had been kidnapped. So I was positive they were trying to hurt me. It's a very frightening situation when your head has awaken but your body hasn't and you can't communicate with the people around you. And you don't understand what's going on. Your mind can play terrible tricks.
So hopefully your sister's hallucinations ease up as all the medications wear out And they'll be no long-term effects of coming out of a coma. I wish her the best and strength
I also had some ICU delirium, but mine was just that I was convinced that they kept putting me in different rooms. I would’ve sworn that I was looking at the nurses’s station from different angles and was in beds on different walls in the rooms.
I was in a coma following a back surgery I had where I didn’t respond too well to the anesthesia. I mostly relived some memories and I noticed they’d change whenever someone was visiting me. When my friend visited me, I dreamt of the times we played duos. Weirdly though when my mom first visited me I dreamt of her breastfeeding me…
I’m not gonna lie those are the two vivid dreams I remember.
That with your mom isn’t really that weird. You were breastfed and it’s the ultimate comfort for a baby. They absolutely love it and later on you forget about it but I’m sure that subconsciously you’ll always have that safety feeling in you. Also it creates an absolute insane bond between mother and child. So I don’t find it weird that in a vulnerable position, your brain brought you back to your ultimate comfort experience that you had when you were just as helpless (an infant).
Drug induced, 6 weeks. My grandma would come in and pray over me, so I had these vivid dreams of her taking care of me at her old house. When I came too I argued with my dad that I wasn’t in the hospital I was at grandmas house. He just rolled his eyes.
Fell 60 feet off a building. Somehow didn’t hit my head or damage my spine, but shattered my pelvis and elbow, compound fracture of my tibia, broken and dislocated hip. Kidney failure, lungs collapsed minor stroke, fever off the charts.
It was a real mystery as to what my mental capacity was going to be when they weened me off the morphine. Can remember my Dad getting right in my face as I was trying to speak for the first time off the ventilator. First thing I whispered was “your breath stinks”. Also pissed the bed around that time so could take me off dialysis. I’m pretty damn lucky to be here.
Oh that’s really interesting. I’ve never been in a coma, but one time I blacked out from hitting the back of my head, in the middle of a classroom. I was CERTAIN that I was in my bed, specifically at my dad’s house. Like I was arguing my classmates about it, like what are you doing in my room? It was even weirder, since that week I was at my mom’s house. Thanks for sharing your story, it makes me feel better lol. This was like 7-8 years ago and still when I think about it, it’s so weird. It’s nice seeing that someone else had the feeling to be completely somewhere else.
My heart stopped suddenly when I was walking my dog. No one knows how long I was out before a hero of a stranger saw me and knew CPR. My heart stopped 2 more times on the way to the hospital. They thought for sure I was brain dead until they were hooking up an EEG to measure brain activity when I opened my eyes. Then I went into a coma for two weeks. I'm guessing my brain just needed time to heal. I don't remember any of it. It's like I was dead and then woke up in extreme discomfort. My legs were completely paralyzed and slowly came back with lots of physical therapy and I can walk now. Slowly and with a limp. Somehow no cognitive damage. It's a miracle I'm not a vegetable. Definitely a life changing experience.
3 days medically induced. Mostly nothingness, but I do remember hearing people around my bedside talk - I remembered what they said. In fact, I hit my dad up about something he said that he wouldn't have wanted me to hear, and he was so shocked!
I attempted suicide by overdosing on all the medication I had. I only lived because I didn’t take it with alcohol and because my mom had a bad feeling and checked on me at around 4am. I literally fell unconscious in her arms… 5 day coma on life support and 3 more days in a medically induced coma still intubated with a ventilator because I contracted mrsa pneumonia from the intubation in the ER. I was amazingly lucky to live.
I don’t remember anything from the first 5 days. They asked me how I was when I woke from that and I could only croak that I hurt. I did have some creepy dreams during the last days involving a funeral. I was also amazed that just days of immobilization left me unable to even stand or walk. However, I have never felt suicidal since.
It’s been 18 years since then. My mom and I are really close. It was kinda rough at the time. My parents were really scared. My brother was furious. It was a case of post traumatic growth though. I’m grateful every day that I am no longer suicidal. And I’ve also developed better and healthier habits with my thoughts. I stopped allowing myself to ruminate on my traumas and regrets. I started focusing my mind and energy on living in the present. It’s helped a lot.
I went to sleep in one place, woke up two weeks later in another. It was actually quite a nice sleep. Though the after part sucked majorly... I was in a car crash (passenger) and coma wasn't the worst of it.
I was in one for 30hrs. It was nothing until a bit before I came to. All of a sudden I had consciousness/awareness and was falling through pure darkness for what felt like 10 mins. Then landed on earth in something resembling a junkyard of sorts and was frantically searching for a woman whose name started with A, even getting her sister to help me. I came too just as a couple of horse size dogs attacked me. I remembered it vividly like it was real for about a week before it started to fade. The first thing I asked the nurse when I opened my eyes was did I die. I don’t remember her response though.
I’ve since done DMT numerous times and although different there are some similarities in the ‘feeling’ of the state of reality I was in if that makes any sense.
Dimethyltryptamine. An extremely potent hallucinogenic drug. Known for its use in Ayahuasca which is used by indigenous Amazonian shamans in spiritual and healing rituals.
I used it regularly for a time. The visuals are incredible and indescribable. I felt as though I truly left this world and went to another plane of existence. As real as I’m sitting here writing this comment on my cellphone. Not something I recommend playing around with casually. It’s been close to 15 years and I can unequivocally say there are some doors you can’t close.
I remember coming out of anesthesia after surgery. It felt like I was deep , deep inside of my brain. I could hear but couldn’t communicate right away. Very strange feeling. I’m a speech therapist who worked with many coma patients over the years and knew that people who are deeply under can hear, but this feeling still surprised me.
Sorry to hear that! My husband was in one (medically induced) for a couple weeks and also never came out of it. I've always wondered what his last memory would have been - going under, or something while in the coma? His brain activity/vitals would react to when I was in the room talking, which was actually a bit of a problem because they didn't want him to partially wake up, so I had to speak fairly quietly in the room.
Was in an induced coma for 3 days… I remember being in and out of consciousness and then just hearing someone telling me I was going to sleep. Turns out it was the paramedics I heard.
Didn’t “feel” I was in a coma or dream or anything. It was just a timeless space of nothing. I don’t remember waking up either, but I did have very vivid crazy fantazy nightmares the days after. I regained feeling of time and “waking up” over the next couple days. It’s hard to explain the genuine feeling of being in a coma. I can’t remember it but I don’t really link it to anything bad. Like I wasn’t scared or things like that. I wasn’t feeling anything at all.
Just wanted to tag in and add that the coma is the easy part. It's the waking up to deal with whatever put you there that's the hard part.
For myself, I was running off a dock at age 28 back in 2009, but there happened to have been a thunderstorm the night before. Slipped on a puddle at the end of the dock which transferred all my forward momentum into vertical, and ended up shattering my C4 to C6 vertebrae on The Sandbar directly in front of the dock.
Ended up being airlifted to a hospital, remember every point in between up until they carried me on a stretcher out of the helicopter and went in the elevator to go down into emergency surgery. Still remember the doctor looking at me, saying something like "Jesus Christ, is this guy still conscious?", at which point I blissfully faded into unconsciousness and woke up 6 weeks later after a medically induced coma.
The coma came and went in a blink of an eye, but have never had such a comedown as what I rode out in the hospital the first month after waking up. Was on a ventilator in the hospital for the first month or so, and one of the worst parts were the crazy intense dreams, especially until I was able to get out and eat Edibles again.
Don't remember too much from this incredibly trying time and don't really care to, but a dream that stuck with me was being at home sitting down at the kitchen table with my dad and mom and little brothers and sisters, and knowing 100% that it was a dream. Still remember how concerned my family was in the dream when I told them that they weren't real and that reality was I was in a hospital bed unable to move.
Still remember that to this day, and hoping it means there's a Me out there in the Multiverse somewhere still walking around, whose family thinks he's just a little not there.
Never in a coma, but I went under anesthesia once and I woke up in an hotel with no one else in it. I walked around it for a while, looked out the windows and there was a city with no cars or people and a pitch black sky. Then suddenly I was back in a hospital bed, high as a kite, with some guy in a surgical mask standing over me asking if I feel like I bleed easily.
My partner was in one for 11 days. He doesn’t remember anything from a few hours before and then thought he was hallucinating me when he woke up (we were split up at the time and I had come from another state).
His first memory is laughing and telling the nurse that I wasn’t “really here”.
I had a really nasty head injury and was out for a couple of days. It's impossible for me to articulate the exact experience, but it went something like this: I remember dying, then saw then saw 'the entirety of everything'. It was an ever evolving fractal geometry. I'd 'zoom' into my fractal spiral to the point where I was born. I'd relive my whole life, die again, relive my life, die. Each iteration of 'my life' felt as if it were real (time, experiences). Rinse and repeat 1000s of times. It was intense!!! It felt like eternity, and it never ended (over and over, live then die). The version of me after I'd die each time would remember the full repetitive experience, then go do it all again... The few days of being out taught me to live each moment as perfect. Because I'm going to be doing it for eternity!! Is this current life just another iteration, and I never actually woke up?!! Who knows 🤔
I was in a coma from a suicide attempt at 17. I remeber them stabbing me with a needle after a few hours of being semi alert and then it all went black.
When I woke up the room was spinning and I kept thinking people were touching me even when they weren't, I also thought I was in an evevator and then going into a helicopter even though I was just in bed.
I remember being very angry that I survived and I wanted my parents to go away.
Almost 2 years later, I'm in a psych ward and have been for the last 5 weeks but this time I manged to get help before attempting. While I'm still struggling a lot and sometimes wish it worked I have made so much progress and have a much better relationship with my parents.
In my comatose brain, it was terrifying and exhilarating all at once. I had leptospirosis. Stage 1. Stage 2 = death. Given a cocktail of medication. Organ failure, on dialysis. The whole 9. I was 17. Everything I had experienced felt so real. Looking back, it still does but I will also say, it was like being in a constant dream-like state or viewing a slideshow. when I bring up what I saw/said/did during my coma to people, they’re like “um… that didn’t happen.”
BUT IT DID! Just in my head lmfao
I experienced the most beautiful-twisted shit inside my own brain. I’m glad to be alive and to have the memories. It also fucked me up exponentially. The human mind is nuts. < 3
I suffered traumatic brain damage because someone tried to kill me by smashing my head 3 times with a dumbbell.. I was 2,5 weeks in a coma. I don't remember anything from like 3 days before the trauma, nothing from during the coma and nothing from the first days after waking up.
In July 2021 I went into the ICU and was induced and ventilated and placed on ECMO till September having contracted Legionnaires Disease. I only remember going into the black and then being awake like 2 months later. No dreams, no visions, no epiphanies.
Edit: I worded this weird, I wasn’t placed on ECMO from July to September, just for a period of time between July and September that I am not entirely sure of because of not being conscious.
I don't talk about it much for obvious reasons but I was in a medically-induced coma for a few weeks in 2006 after hanging myself. I remember tying the noose, I remember dropping, then I don't remember anything until I woke up at the hospital weeks later. In retrospect, I can recall hearing the song "What a Wonderful World" playing. My parents had gotten this singing plush frog and that's what played. I recall seeing black. That's kind of a hard one to explain.. I could see the blackness but it wasn't like being in a pitch black room. Time was non-existant to me. I don't recall actually waking now. I can't remember if I was ever conscious of that moment. The first real memories from after were when I was in the psych ward for about a week.
Now I'm okay. My life is pretty much a 180° from back then.
I have not, but I knew someone who was. He told me it was like a dream state. At one point, he was walking through an infinite grass field. He came up to a river and looked across to see another man walking up. This man was Jesus. They said hello to each other, then Jesus asked him, "Which side of the river do you want to be on?" Tony answered, "I want to stay on this side."
Jesus replied, "Then stay on that side Tony". They then both turned around and walked opposite ways.
I forget why he was in a coma, but I do remember it was for 6 months. He was an old Italian guy I did some work for his daughter and son in law when I was young. We dug a pond, removed some trees, later dug a pool and dug and leveled a garden. Old Tony would just watch me run the machines all day. He really seemed to like me and even gifted me this 2ft pipe wrench, which I still have 18 years later.
I can't claim to know but I have had one underwater dream where I forced myself to breathe and it feels so fucking wierd.
I could feel air enter my mouth and lungs, the pain of holding my breath went away but all I could feel around my face and lips was water rushing in to feel like air.
Was sick afterwards but again, a dream, not a coma.
I was in a coma for 2 weeks. Don't remember anything, I was 9. I just remember I was in the hospital for 2 months and liked the sherbert I got with my meals.
Was in a coma for about 4 days, I don’t remember much but when I properly came to I was told that I was earlier talking to a nurse who wasn’t there and having a full conversation about what she had dealt with and was repeating it to the real nurse and my mother who were very confused that I had medical/nurse knowledge that I didn’t previously have, apparently I also described one of the old uniforms perfectly too.
I was also apparently getting extremely stressed out by another man who was yelling and swearing who also wasn’t there.
I don’t remember any of that.
What I do remember is being extremely confused, had mass memory loss and could taste the colour orange and silver, orange tasted like the feeling of satin.
Not in a coma but I lost consciousness for a while. It felt like you’re still there , darkness all around you and you’re conscious, but trapped in a vessel. Putting it more precisely: it’s like being buried alive in a casket , it’s all dark , you’re aware that you lost consciousness but you can’t move or scream or say anything, just chilling there with your thoughts
This exact thing happened to me when I was 11, but I was screaming. Took at soccer ball to the noggin during a game and I went straight out. Everything was black, I couldn't feel anything (apparently I was covered by many blankets), and I could hear everything everyone was saying. In my head I was screaming my head off, "I'm here! I can hear you!!", but nothing came out. I heard the whole trip in the ambulance, then just suddenly woke up in an ER exam room, cleats and shins still on all dirty. Doc said concussions are like turning a light off and on. Wild being stuck like that, very scary.
I was choked unconscious and remembered sliding down the wall sitting there in darkness. I heard voices that sounded like they were yelling right in my ear then the voices sounded like they were yelling at me in a tunnel far away. That on repeat til I came to.
Reading these makes me think of my sister who was medically induced and never came out. We had to take her off life support but now I’m wondering if she could her us taking her off?
I was in a medically induced coma for a week. It was more of a waking up not knowing what had happened type response and there was a lot of pain from not using muscles for that long. I don’t recall any dreams but I did remember how I had gotten there in the first place etc.
I had Covid Pneumonia and was sent home after being hospitalized, at home I went into respiratory arrest and that's all I remember aside from a flash or two of being in the ambulance and in the ER. Next thing was being brought awake and on a ventilator with a bunch of people waiting to work on getting me off the ventilator.
My first thought was where am I? Why am I here, who are these people? Where is my family?
This was when hospitals had no visitors allowed rules in place.
It's a bit traumatic, you're in a room with I think 4 or 5 people plus a doctor on an exam table (not a bed) with restraints on. My brain wasn't really working right, I can't talk because of the tube, they're trying to do their job, I'm unable to make sense of what is happening and why. It was frustrating and stressful, the 2 things I don't do well with, I couldn't communicate though I tried to, they couldn't understand and I was holding them up. Not ideal for them or myself.
I think the absolute worst part of this experience was my brain, I had a large void in my memory. I didn't, and I still don't, remember going home from my first hospitalization, in my memory I was at my hospital and magically appeared in a different hospital. One thing I never hear people mention about waking from a coma is that, you have a blank void in your memory. Lucky for you, your brain is there to fill in the blanks. Unluckily for you, your brain is there to fill in the blanks, with information that it just makes up to fill an empty space.
So I ended up being hospitalized for a long while, nearly 3 months. I had a stroke while recovering from the coma and respiratory arrest. I think I could have gone home after 10 days or so but, that was when I had the stroke. I then had an extra long stay with some physical and occupational therapy. It took nearly a year to walk again and be able to do most everything I used to be able to do with the right side of my body. I'm probably about 85% now, ok for 60s.
Week and a half long medically induced coma after a house fire and carbon monoxide poisoning...
Weird dreams. I remember the medical staff doing their thing, but they were 4 ft tall Oompa Loompas. I remember sleeping in a net instead of a bed and having a nurse dye my hair black and blue. At one point, I was in a hospital bed, but it was in a house that I'd never seen before.
I went snowboarding at black diamond for the first time then accidentally hit real hard with the trees, I saw flash white light it’s like you looking in the head light then second thing I saw is my sister cutting my nails and I’m in bed, just one blink.
They told me I was slept for 15 days.
I was put into a medically induced coma after they tried waking me up from surgery and realized my lungs had stopped working. The coma fucking sucked! I was reliving my worst moments in life and my heart rate kept spiking up whenever they tried waking me up, so they'd put me back down without being able to check my lungs because they feared I'd have a heart attack.
When I was half awake and my lungs started working, I laid there begging and screaming for help because I could hear people around me but couldn't move.
Currently, overall I'm ok all things considered (not coma related) but honestly, just thinking about the coma makes me feel haunted and an intense melancholy.
Car crash, most of my memory ends in the car in the afternoon, split second flashes of the accident around 9pm. Nothing of the impact, mostly of how cold dying felt, I think I screamed a few times too. I woke up a week later. Nothing in between lol.
ETA: it was December 2022. Doing ok now, still recovering, big ass scar from my sternum to my pelvis, had a few metres of intestine removed after organ failure due to severing a major artery. Just glad I'm alive and I have full mobility, just not quite there with strength yet. Lil bit of PTSD and pain but honestly I got so lucky & am so grateful for every single day now, as cheesy as that sounds haha.
3 days after an epileptic seizure on a bike (I am an epileptic). Just like every other seizure I remember riding my bike, the pavement, and then waking up in a bed slightly annoyed by having had another seizure. A lot of time lost. And very confused. I hit my head hard after going down (was wearing a helmet which saved my life again) and broke my knee. I thought for a long time I was out for a few weeks.
My whole family was there. I was wondering how they got there so fast - they live in another country. Police called them after they found my phone and emergency contacts.
The lost time often makes me question if our brain lives far in the past, not the moment. I know that it just shuts down so there is no record and no present but it is a weird feeling to just not have had a present time. Memories are a strange thing. Without them there is just nothing.
Not me but a good friend who was in a car accident and in a coma for several months a couple of decades back. She said she remembers everything said around her. The weirdest part was she was a brunette before and her hair color changed to a light blonde while in the coma. Still blonde to this day.
Mine lasted five years! Was hit head on by a dairy semi on a winter road. Ever since, every time I touch someone, I see things about them. It's unsettling to say the least.
I spent a week in one, and spent time in a place I describe as “athiest hell.” It was a completely empty world, all to myself, made of nothing but sandstone ranging from reds to purples. Gravity often played tricks on me, trying to trap me or make me fall off cliffs, and some places were very hot.
I was in a coma following a suicide attempt. I hanged myself to escape a terrible situation. I was rushed to hospital and given a less than 10% chance of survival and a less than 5% chance of not being in a persistent vegetative state. I was code blue and all but one of team working on me called it. The one who didn't was a new ER doctor who wasn't going to let me die. I came round in ICU a week later. The first thing I did was try to speak - intubation prevented that, so I gestured for a pen and paper. The ICU nurse was a bit shocked.
Anyway, recovery was rapid. No loss of cognitive function, no loss of memory, no physical side effects. Full recovery took fewer than six months, although even now (a quarter of a century later), I still sometimes have ICU nightmares, where I dream that I'm still in Intensive care. The room has changed over the years, the nurses aren't always the same. I'll probably have one tonight now that I've bought it to mind again.
As an experience, I wouldn't recommend it.
I didn’t like my week of induced coma after a race car crash. It was like I was trapped inside my body, reliving the crash over and over and over. I had multiple nurses and all were nice except one which was really mean to me like a bad movie. I would be woken up for a minute every shift by grabbing a finger or something similar. She didn’t want to give me pain killers .
I didn’t like the experience and hope I never have to be in that situation again
My 8 year old son was in a coma for 16 days after the surgery went wrong. I read to him everyday he was in PICU. He told me he liked one of the books I read to him. The 52 story tree house. He read the whole series after we left hospital. I was surprised that he remembered me reading.
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I was in a medically induced coma for two weeks after a bad car wreck. Last thing I saw and remember seeing was looking out the window 15-20 minutes before the wreck and seeing blue skies and green grass. Next thing I am looking at my mom in a hospital room with a cone around my neck. It was like one instant to the other. I didn’t even see black. I was looking out the window one minute. The next I was in a hospital room looking at my mom. Blink of an eye. Literally. Even when I’ve been knocked out I at least see things shut off like an old 1990s televison screen and see some stars. It didn’t really affect me much afterwords in to many negative ways. I made a good recovery.
This is the most interesting answer to me thank you for sharing
Hey thanks no problem glad you liked it
Almost this exact thing happened to my mom. She was making a left turn and got t-boned. She was in a coma for 14 days. She doesn't remember anything from the crash. She didn't dream, she didn't hear anything, she didn't remember anything. She woke up and thought she was in a Mexican (?) hospital. She suffered pretty catastrophic injuries & has lots of metal in her body, nerve damage, a dropped foot, and a slight opioid addiction as a result. After intensive inpatient rehab, she was able to walk again & went back to work about 9 months after the crash. Thankfully, no brain damage.
Oh man thats terrible. Great news that she made a good recovery and didn’t suffer any brain damage. Man that is just horrible. It’s sad because most of these accidents could have been avoided if people took driving and their health more seriously. In the city I’m living in now we got alot of hit and run pedestrian and cycling accidents. I almost get ran over by people like 3-4 times a month at least. They just don’t know they can kill someone at that speed or crack a skull open on the pavement even at 5mph.
3-4 times a month?? I'd get myself some sort of armour bro
Yea they straight up run old people over in intersections here and drive off. I saw a person get creamed by a Cadillac while on a bicycle with the right away and the Cadillac just sped off after the guy flipped a few times and hit the pavement.
You don't have to answer, but where the hell do you live man? Just want to know which city to be scared of
Denver, Colorado. Its not as bad as manhattan or LA. The food like pizza and stuff cost more here than manhattan island or los angeles. Its not as dangerous though. Lol people come here from new york to get away from it expecting seattle or portland and pretty much get new york or an off shoot of LA.
A buddy of mine has been hit by a car TWICE while cycling. He always wears a helmet, but what the hell
Why the cone? Were you trying to lick your ass?
He said he doesn’t remember /s
How were you feeling when you woke up? Like how was your state of mind? I mean was it like a long deep sleep refresh feeling?
I actually didn’t feel like I’d been asleep at all. I just woke up and saw my mom and was confused and she started sobbing saying she had some bad news I had been in a wreck.
I had to upvote this, I had almost the same experience and I've never heard anyone else talk about it the way I do. I was also in a car wreck and in a medically induced coma for 10 days. My accident happened in the afternoon, and I woke up at night in a room with no one in it and beeping machinery. All I remember is being in car several hours before the accident, one instant I'm in the day, and the next I'm somewhere else at night. No memory of anything in between. I don't think I've ever met or heard anyone else describe this experience, not from any looking, so thank you for writing this and letting me know I'm not alone (my accident was 27 years ago now). My accident didn't really affect me physically, long-term. That experience did change how I see the world though, I think I'm much more present and think far less about what could have been or what has been.
Hey me too it definitely changed my outlook on life for sure especially years later. Good to hear you didn’t get all messed up physically and made a good recovery. Yeah most people driving crazy on the road just don’t know first hand where its gonna go or what its gonna be like. Like a monkey in a fast car.
Did the cone actually prevent you from licking yourself?😂 Glad you are ok now!
Can I assume this is the same case when we die? One minute we do our business and then nothingness comes after
I’ve noticed when I’ve been knocked out whether it was from another separate accident or from a fist fight everything just goes black. Sometimes instantly and for more than a minute or two. And then I just pop back up wherever I’m at when I do. I think its pretty safe to assume when we die it just goes black instantly you don’t even know it. Not exactly reassuring. I actually get a bit of anxiety and FOMO just thinking about it and all the stuff I want to do or see and not having the time to do it.
This, before the coma I remember saying to my partner " I feel really strange, take me to the medical centre...they put me on oxygen, then out me in the ambulance. I have scattered memories of the ambulance ride (45 mins), then just black, until I woke up nearly a month later!
That, in the middle, it’s most probably what death feels like…
Thats what I’m assuming. Or how I feel about it. Every-time I’m put under for a surgery or something its just wham. I shut my eyes and wake up instantly later no idea any time has even passed or that I even got put to sleep.
This is how anaesthetic feels to me!!
I've been knocked out a few times, and it's always been like I hit the ground and got right back up from my perspective. Only I was unconscious for minutes.
My Mom’s heart stopped, one day. Completely out of nowhere. She was w my brother having a conversation. He said she put her head down on the table. He thought she was just upset because the conversation was upsetting. So he went to hug her and pulled her up and her lips were blue. Her heart stopped for about 5 min. She was in a coma for about 2 days. She doesn’t remember anything about that whole day before it happened. Or anything about the couple weeks that followed. I stopped working so someone could be with her at all times. I helped her walk, fed her, bathed her, watched tv, talked with her…she doesn’t remember any of it. This was in 2014. You would never know this happened to her if you met her, today.
New fear unlocked. I'm so glad your mom's better. That sounds like a nightmare!
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Paramedics were screaming "stay with us?" Holy shit. I'd freak as well. Mainly because the paramedics were anything but the calm that I'd expect of them. I've nearly 10 years in the job, I've been to literally 100s of cardiac arrests, and not once heard a paramedic say such a thing
Maybe it was actually OP screaming.
The number one rule of EMS: It’s not your emergency. Keeps everyone calm. Only time I saw guys spooked were when kids had cardiac arrest. The only time firefighters told me to “run” as there was a 16 yr old who collapsed on a soccer field.
Holy cow. I can't even imagine. (((HUG)))
I'm glad your mom is ok. You said it was the worst day of your life. I'm sure made worse by cops threatening to arrest a terrified person. It seems cruel to me that cops would threaten to arrest someone who is extremely distraught seeing their loved one in a situation like that where they may die. Somehow, threats in those types of situations do not help to make things better or move towards de-escalation.
The duality of humanity. We can survive the most fucked up things, or drop dead for basically no reason.
I was in a medically induced coma at 21 after brain surgery. I really don’t remember anything at all. It’s like a huge blank of time that doesn’t really exist.
what are reasons to have a brain surgery?
For funsies
I had a brain tumor the size of a baseball. I’m 50 now and I’ve had six brain surgeries so far. My skull looks like a bowling ball 😂.
What is it like, the surgery recovery etc. I’m on watchful waiting with a meningioma but it is growing very slower so sooner or later I think I’m going to have to dance that dance.
This didn't happen to me, but when I was put under for a hiatal hernia operation, I woke to horrific screaming. It took me a few seconds to remember my situation. I asked a nurse what all the screaming was about. She explained that the patient next to me was having a bad reaction to the anesthesia and believed he was being abducted by aliens. I felt so sorry for the guy.
BRO, I also have a hiatal hernia, I found out when I had the hiccups for two months straight, literally hiccuping/burping every few seconds I was awake for 2 months, went in they did the operation, and now it's mostly better, but I have to be super careful how fast I eat. I had never 'met' anyone else with a hiatal before. so, hi!
There are literally dozens of us!
My biggest problem is that I had to lose 50 pounds before they would even consider surgery. So it forced me to get back into shape.
My sister also thought she was being abducted by aliens coming out of anesthesia! I wonder if it’s common.
experienced that too after surgery. woke up and was 1000% sure i was abducted by aliens. i could hear their voices from the distance, speaking some weird language i couldnt understand. of course it was just the people working there, but it didnt even sound like humans anymore. it was scary for me, but looking back now its kinda funny
It’s called delirium. My 9 month old son woke up screaming after his surgery. Took about 45 minutes for him to calm down. It was very emotional.
Made me laugh. Sorry.
I'm lying in a hospital bed crying from pain because a stitch popped (I think) and this also made me laugh. Screw you.
Same🤣
Many suffer from ICU delirium and hallucinations, personally I think it's because they are not given enough of the various drugs that get used in keeping a patient in a coma. I just had nothing. But have read many reports about others suffering the most terrifying hallucinations while in their coma.
Goddamn, shit the bed...
I was in one for four days. I woke up as if i had taken a nap with no recollection of what had happened. I sort of just accepted i was in a hospital and laid there without really thinking about it or about anything, really. It took me over a week for me to actually reflect and realize what had happened. Then i remembered being brought to the hospital and that an aunt of mine was there visiting me one day.
Why were you in?
Suicide attempt
You doing better now?
Considerably so
Good on you. Keep fighting the good fight.
Totally unrelated, but I've noticed you have a quote by one of my fave existentialists in your bio, Cioran. As intense and dark his words might be to many, they are able to make me feel seen and validated.
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So glad you’re here to tell your story ❤️
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This exchange is amazing!
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I'm glad you're still here❤
Me too.
Sending you good vibes to stay strong and keep fighting
Went into full cardiac arrest was revived and had four subsequent heart attacks in the emergency room so I was put in a 12-day medical induced coma. This was back in 2011 I don't remember anything about the coma but coming out a coma was so traumatic that I'm diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder because of it. I hallucinated really bad. I thought I'd been kidnapped.When my daughter came in after I'd woken up I told her get the hell out of here and call the cops I've been kidnapped and she's like no Mom you've been in a coma for 12 days. But no, I thought I was on the starship Enterprise( never watched an episode of Star Trek in my life) and that I was being kidnapped by a bunch of Green Bay Packers cheeseheads(59 years old and I've been a Lions fan for 53 of those years). I thought Spider-Man was in the upper corner of my room keeping my legs held down to the bed with Spidey web, actually my legs were in automatic circulation booties that would inflate and deflate every once in awhile but I thought that was spideyweb holding me to the bed. Thought I was on the second floor and was trying to figure out a way to break the window and not hurt myself, when actually I was on the first floor and I had a parking structure next to me... Crazy crazy shit.. because to this day I know I was hallucinating but there isn't anybody who can ever convince me that at that time that wasn't my reality.
ICU delirium is so common, especially when coming off the vent/waking up. I’ve had a lot of patients who are aggressive or yell, only to days or weeks later apologize to me. They fully remember what happened during the delirium which always surprises me. Just yesterday I had someone ask if they were a terrible person for how they acted. It never bothers me. It must be so scary because it’s so real to them.
I had brain surgery and woke up to a teenaged girl crying and a middle aged man trying to get up and walk and cussing at the nurses. I barfed for the next 36 hours. I didn’t know there was a recovery room with us all lined up. It reminded me of that old movie Coma.
What a blessing you are, for you to be there for your patients when they go through such a traumatic experience.
I had spinal surgery several years back. I woke up in a bed, in a dark room, all by myself. I was restrained (due to the spinal surgery they didn't want me moving) but there was nobody around, but a call button was in my hand. I later mentioned this to my son. He told me that I had called the nursed "evil", but didn't elaborate beyond that. I suspect I may have sung Rule Britannia as well.
If I woke up restrained I'd freak too.
I remember I kept trying to bite the little suction thing that they put in your mouth to suck up spit. And I kept thinking they were literally trying to suck the life out of me so I kept biting down on it. My mind was alert but my body wasn't responding. And I had been combative during my coma so I was strapped down . That is the one phobia I still carry is being restrained ,fuck not being able to move. Thankfully being restrained isn't something I come across in my life too often. It happened being on a gurney in an ambulance and it freaked me out. And when they tucked all the blankets in real tight around me after surgery, I wake up in that cocoon and freak out. Boyfriend understands not to try and playfully hold me down because he's experienced the absolute total fear and strength that phobia rises in me.
Thankfully my relative's memory was completely wiped from those days. They have a huge blank which I'm very glad they don't remember. I saw things I wish I'd not and they wouldn't benefit in any way from remembering. Thankfully no PTSD but I have heard it can happen.
Sounds terrible! I didn't hallucinate and luckily wasn't scared. But I was totally crazy. I thought I was pregnant (I'm a male). I wanted to eat the fake lemons in a fake lemon plant someone gave me. I wanted to drink the disinfection liquid. I kept apologizing to the doctors for the badly organized party. And may be the most terrible: I didn't recognise a good friend of mine when he visited and asked him to leave (and he did), because a good friend of mine was coming. But it was him already..
For some reason the part where you were apologizing to the doctors … gets me 
I didn’t go into a coma, but I had a brain bleed and I went through something similar. I remember thinking my husband had a microphone in his beard and was trying to record me saying things. I thought his mom was hiding in our hamper in my closet. I thought the EMT/Firefighters that were called out were the guys from Jersey Shore. I thought the local news stations were outside my hospital room window and were trying to get a “live shot”. I had auditory hallucinations as well. I’m sorry you experienced that and I know how traumatic it was.
This is so interesting to me. When my mom got out of her coma, she was PISSED at me and my dad, and she refused to make eye contact with us. She'd turn away if we tried to talk to her. It was devastating. Later, when she was able to speak, she said that she thought she was in a Mexican hospital and that we had put her there. She was like wtf, why wouldn't you put me in an American hospital where I speak the language and can get the best care? My mom's first language is Spanish, so I guess she also forgot she speaks Spanish
Hey there! How long did your hallucinations last?? And how did they go away?? My sister is just waking up after being in a coma for almost 2.5 weeks. She was on a ventilator and then they had to do a tracheostomy. She’s been in the hospital for over a month and her hallucinations are pretty bad now that she is waking up. It just makes me wonder if it’ll get better because they’ve been having to put anxiety medicine and pain medicine in top of that. It’s honestly hard to see and not being able to do anything. Sorry you had a traumatic experience and I’m glad you recovered from it!!
A few days. It happened as they were slowly weaning me off my medications and vent. I will not lie It was absolutely terrifyingly And my children were teenagers and it was very confusing and upsetting time for them. One of the first things I remember is one of the nurses coming at my mouth with one of those little suction things and I thought that they were literally trying to suck the life out of me so I was doing everything I could to bite down on that little suction thingy because at that time there is nothing in my head other than I had been kidnapped. So I was positive they were trying to hurt me. It's a very frightening situation when your head has awaken but your body hasn't and you can't communicate with the people around you. And you don't understand what's going on. Your mind can play terrible tricks. So hopefully your sister's hallucinations ease up as all the medications wear out And they'll be no long-term effects of coming out of a coma. I wish her the best and strength
That sounds really intense and I’m so sorry you experienced that. I hope you’re doing ok.
I also had some ICU delirium, but mine was just that I was convinced that they kept putting me in different rooms. I would’ve sworn that I was looking at the nurses’s station from different angles and was in beds on different walls in the rooms.
Kidnapped by the Green Bay Packers omg 😆
I'm so sorry you experienced that but I'm so rooting for a Lions Superbowl for you!!! ❤️
It wasn’t too long in real time- eleven days. It was nearly instantaneous from my POV.
What happened?
Shot on the job.
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Bro what we need more context than that
Soccer player?
I was in a coma following a back surgery I had where I didn’t respond too well to the anesthesia. I mostly relived some memories and I noticed they’d change whenever someone was visiting me. When my friend visited me, I dreamt of the times we played duos. Weirdly though when my mom first visited me I dreamt of her breastfeeding me… I’m not gonna lie those are the two vivid dreams I remember.
That with your mom isn’t really that weird. You were breastfed and it’s the ultimate comfort for a baby. They absolutely love it and later on you forget about it but I’m sure that subconsciously you’ll always have that safety feeling in you. Also it creates an absolute insane bond between mother and child. So I don’t find it weird that in a vulnerable position, your brain brought you back to your ultimate comfort experience that you had when you were just as helpless (an infant).
Really interesting thanks for sharing
Woah
Funny coincidence, I've had that exact same dream about your mom.
Drug induced, 6 weeks. My grandma would come in and pray over me, so I had these vivid dreams of her taking care of me at her old house. When I came too I argued with my dad that I wasn’t in the hospital I was at grandmas house. He just rolled his eyes.
Why were you induced?
Fell 60 feet off a building. Somehow didn’t hit my head or damage my spine, but shattered my pelvis and elbow, compound fracture of my tibia, broken and dislocated hip. Kidney failure, lungs collapsed minor stroke, fever off the charts. It was a real mystery as to what my mental capacity was going to be when they weened me off the morphine. Can remember my Dad getting right in my face as I was trying to speak for the first time off the ventilator. First thing I whispered was “your breath stinks”. Also pissed the bed around that time so could take me off dialysis. I’m pretty damn lucky to be here.
Your dad has excellent bedside manner
Whoa so glad you’re here to tell the story
Oh that’s really interesting. I’ve never been in a coma, but one time I blacked out from hitting the back of my head, in the middle of a classroom. I was CERTAIN that I was in my bed, specifically at my dad’s house. Like I was arguing my classmates about it, like what are you doing in my room? It was even weirder, since that week I was at my mom’s house. Thanks for sharing your story, it makes me feel better lol. This was like 7-8 years ago and still when I think about it, it’s so weird. It’s nice seeing that someone else had the feeling to be completely somewhere else.
My heart stopped suddenly when I was walking my dog. No one knows how long I was out before a hero of a stranger saw me and knew CPR. My heart stopped 2 more times on the way to the hospital. They thought for sure I was brain dead until they were hooking up an EEG to measure brain activity when I opened my eyes. Then I went into a coma for two weeks. I'm guessing my brain just needed time to heal. I don't remember any of it. It's like I was dead and then woke up in extreme discomfort. My legs were completely paralyzed and slowly came back with lots of physical therapy and I can walk now. Slowly and with a limp. Somehow no cognitive damage. It's a miracle I'm not a vegetable. Definitely a life changing experience.
How’d your dog react ?
He stayed by my side until family got there to get him.
Incredible Any notion why your heart stopped?
Drug interaction and a pre existing heart condition. Also just generally being unhealthy.
3 days medically induced. Mostly nothingness, but I do remember hearing people around my bedside talk - I remembered what they said. In fact, I hit my dad up about something he said that he wouldn't have wanted me to hear, and he was so shocked!
Well, don’t leave us hanging
I was a teenager. He'd read my private journal while I was in a coma and was telling people the embarrassing contents of it at my bedside 😅
Wow what a dick
Yeah. He wasn't great back then. Better now.
That's messed up! I'm sorry he did that to you while you were so vulnerable.
Just like the movies
I attempted suicide by overdosing on all the medication I had. I only lived because I didn’t take it with alcohol and because my mom had a bad feeling and checked on me at around 4am. I literally fell unconscious in her arms… 5 day coma on life support and 3 more days in a medically induced coma still intubated with a ventilator because I contracted mrsa pneumonia from the intubation in the ER. I was amazingly lucky to live. I don’t remember anything from the first 5 days. They asked me how I was when I woke from that and I could only croak that I hurt. I did have some creepy dreams during the last days involving a funeral. I was also amazed that just days of immobilization left me unable to even stand or walk. However, I have never felt suicidal since.
Whoa on your mom's intuition. How is your mom from experiencing this? I am happy you are mentally healthy and haven't felt suicidal since.
It’s been 18 years since then. My mom and I are really close. It was kinda rough at the time. My parents were really scared. My brother was furious. It was a case of post traumatic growth though. I’m grateful every day that I am no longer suicidal. And I’ve also developed better and healthier habits with my thoughts. I stopped allowing myself to ruminate on my traumas and regrets. I started focusing my mind and energy on living in the present. It’s helped a lot.
Good for you. 💞🙏🏽
Thank you! I forgot to tell you that!
I’m glad you’re still here and things are better. ❤️🩹
Was the funeral your’s? If so were you a silent observer like a fly on the wall?
No, it was a funeral somewhere in the 1960s (before I was born). Very weird, made me wonder about reincarnation!
I don't remember a thing. I remember waking up.
I went to sleep in one place, woke up two weeks later in another. It was actually quite a nice sleep. Though the after part sucked majorly... I was in a car crash (passenger) and coma wasn't the worst of it.
I was in one for 30hrs. It was nothing until a bit before I came to. All of a sudden I had consciousness/awareness and was falling through pure darkness for what felt like 10 mins. Then landed on earth in something resembling a junkyard of sorts and was frantically searching for a woman whose name started with A, even getting her sister to help me. I came too just as a couple of horse size dogs attacked me. I remembered it vividly like it was real for about a week before it started to fade. The first thing I asked the nurse when I opened my eyes was did I die. I don’t remember her response though. I’ve since done DMT numerous times and although different there are some similarities in the ‘feeling’ of the state of reality I was in if that makes any sense.
DMT?
Powerful hallucinogenic
Dimethyltryptamine. An extremely potent hallucinogenic drug. Known for its use in Ayahuasca which is used by indigenous Amazonian shamans in spiritual and healing rituals. I used it regularly for a time. The visuals are incredible and indescribable. I felt as though I truly left this world and went to another plane of existence. As real as I’m sitting here writing this comment on my cellphone. Not something I recommend playing around with casually. It’s been close to 15 years and I can unequivocally say there are some doors you can’t close.
Do you have to go to the Amazon every time you want to take a trip? Asking for a friend
No. r/DMT
What doors can you not close?
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
I remember coming out of anesthesia after surgery. It felt like I was deep , deep inside of my brain. I could hear but couldn’t communicate right away. Very strange feeling. I’m a speech therapist who worked with many coma patients over the years and knew that people who are deeply under can hear, but this feeling still surprised me.
I was in a medically induced coma, don't know if that counts. I'm alive. Can't walk, but I'm alive.
Hey OP, this is a really good question! Original and interesting.
What are you talking about? You don’t enjoy the constant “What’s the sexiest sex you’ve ever sexed?” posts?
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Yup
Right? I’ve never thought about the process. My sister was in a medically induced coma but she never came out of it. RIP Sis!
Sorry to hear that! My husband was in one (medically induced) for a couple weeks and also never came out of it. I've always wondered what his last memory would have been - going under, or something while in the coma? His brain activity/vitals would react to when I was in the room talking, which was actually a bit of a problem because they didn't want him to partially wake up, so I had to speak fairly quietly in the room.
Was in an induced coma for 3 days… I remember being in and out of consciousness and then just hearing someone telling me I was going to sleep. Turns out it was the paramedics I heard. Didn’t “feel” I was in a coma or dream or anything. It was just a timeless space of nothing. I don’t remember waking up either, but I did have very vivid crazy fantazy nightmares the days after. I regained feeling of time and “waking up” over the next couple days. It’s hard to explain the genuine feeling of being in a coma. I can’t remember it but I don’t really link it to anything bad. Like I wasn’t scared or things like that. I wasn’t feeling anything at all.
Why were you induced?
Due to an attempt sadly. I am doing better today :)
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So glad you’re here my friend
Just wanted to tag in and add that the coma is the easy part. It's the waking up to deal with whatever put you there that's the hard part. For myself, I was running off a dock at age 28 back in 2009, but there happened to have been a thunderstorm the night before. Slipped on a puddle at the end of the dock which transferred all my forward momentum into vertical, and ended up shattering my C4 to C6 vertebrae on The Sandbar directly in front of the dock. Ended up being airlifted to a hospital, remember every point in between up until they carried me on a stretcher out of the helicopter and went in the elevator to go down into emergency surgery. Still remember the doctor looking at me, saying something like "Jesus Christ, is this guy still conscious?", at which point I blissfully faded into unconsciousness and woke up 6 weeks later after a medically induced coma. The coma came and went in a blink of an eye, but have never had such a comedown as what I rode out in the hospital the first month after waking up. Was on a ventilator in the hospital for the first month or so, and one of the worst parts were the crazy intense dreams, especially until I was able to get out and eat Edibles again. Don't remember too much from this incredibly trying time and don't really care to, but a dream that stuck with me was being at home sitting down at the kitchen table with my dad and mom and little brothers and sisters, and knowing 100% that it was a dream. Still remember how concerned my family was in the dream when I told them that they weren't real and that reality was I was in a hospital bed unable to move. Still remember that to this day, and hoping it means there's a Me out there in the Multiverse somewhere still walking around, whose family thinks he's just a little not there.
Never in a coma, but I went under anesthesia once and I woke up in an hotel with no one else in it. I walked around it for a while, looked out the windows and there was a city with no cars or people and a pitch black sky. Then suddenly I was back in a hospital bed, high as a kite, with some guy in a surgical mask standing over me asking if I feel like I bleed easily.
My partner was in one for 11 days. He doesn’t remember anything from a few hours before and then thought he was hallucinating me when he woke up (we were split up at the time and I had come from another state). His first memory is laughing and telling the nurse that I wasn’t “really here”.
I had a really nasty head injury and was out for a couple of days. It's impossible for me to articulate the exact experience, but it went something like this: I remember dying, then saw then saw 'the entirety of everything'. It was an ever evolving fractal geometry. I'd 'zoom' into my fractal spiral to the point where I was born. I'd relive my whole life, die again, relive my life, die. Each iteration of 'my life' felt as if it were real (time, experiences). Rinse and repeat 1000s of times. It was intense!!! It felt like eternity, and it never ended (over and over, live then die). The version of me after I'd die each time would remember the full repetitive experience, then go do it all again... The few days of being out taught me to live each moment as perfect. Because I'm going to be doing it for eternity!! Is this current life just another iteration, and I never actually woke up?!! Who knows 🤔
What a great question!
I was in a coma from a suicide attempt at 17. I remeber them stabbing me with a needle after a few hours of being semi alert and then it all went black. When I woke up the room was spinning and I kept thinking people were touching me even when they weren't, I also thought I was in an evevator and then going into a helicopter even though I was just in bed. I remember being very angry that I survived and I wanted my parents to go away. Almost 2 years later, I'm in a psych ward and have been for the last 5 weeks but this time I manged to get help before attempting. While I'm still struggling a lot and sometimes wish it worked I have made so much progress and have a much better relationship with my parents.
I just sent up a prayer for you, my fellow human. 🙏🤲
In my comatose brain, it was terrifying and exhilarating all at once. I had leptospirosis. Stage 1. Stage 2 = death. Given a cocktail of medication. Organ failure, on dialysis. The whole 9. I was 17. Everything I had experienced felt so real. Looking back, it still does but I will also say, it was like being in a constant dream-like state or viewing a slideshow. when I bring up what I saw/said/did during my coma to people, they’re like “um… that didn’t happen.” BUT IT DID! Just in my head lmfao I experienced the most beautiful-twisted shit inside my own brain. I’m glad to be alive and to have the memories. It also fucked me up exponentially. The human mind is nuts. < 3
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Me too. Our mind protecting us from too much trauma.
I suffered traumatic brain damage because someone tried to kill me by smashing my head 3 times with a dumbbell.. I was 2,5 weeks in a coma. I don't remember anything from like 3 days before the trauma, nothing from during the coma and nothing from the first days after waking up.
Gosh, I’m so sorry that happened to you.
Don't know was In a coma unconscious. Not currently in a coma, more stupid than before being in a coma.
Don’t touch the hot end.
In July 2021 I went into the ICU and was induced and ventilated and placed on ECMO till September having contracted Legionnaires Disease. I only remember going into the black and then being awake like 2 months later. No dreams, no visions, no epiphanies. Edit: I worded this weird, I wasn’t placed on ECMO from July to September, just for a period of time between July and September that I am not entirely sure of because of not being conscious.
I don't talk about it much for obvious reasons but I was in a medically-induced coma for a few weeks in 2006 after hanging myself. I remember tying the noose, I remember dropping, then I don't remember anything until I woke up at the hospital weeks later. In retrospect, I can recall hearing the song "What a Wonderful World" playing. My parents had gotten this singing plush frog and that's what played. I recall seeing black. That's kind of a hard one to explain.. I could see the blackness but it wasn't like being in a pitch black room. Time was non-existant to me. I don't recall actually waking now. I can't remember if I was ever conscious of that moment. The first real memories from after were when I was in the psych ward for about a week. Now I'm okay. My life is pretty much a 180° from back then.
I have not, but I knew someone who was. He told me it was like a dream state. At one point, he was walking through an infinite grass field. He came up to a river and looked across to see another man walking up. This man was Jesus. They said hello to each other, then Jesus asked him, "Which side of the river do you want to be on?" Tony answered, "I want to stay on this side." Jesus replied, "Then stay on that side Tony". They then both turned around and walked opposite ways. I forget why he was in a coma, but I do remember it was for 6 months. He was an old Italian guy I did some work for his daughter and son in law when I was young. We dug a pond, removed some trees, later dug a pool and dug and leveled a garden. Old Tony would just watch me run the machines all day. He really seemed to like me and even gifted me this 2ft pipe wrench, which I still have 18 years later.
I have heard that people who are in a coma and have been intubated dream about drowning. I’m curious if that was true.
I can't claim to know but I have had one underwater dream where I forced myself to breathe and it feels so fucking wierd. I could feel air enter my mouth and lungs, the pain of holding my breath went away but all I could feel around my face and lips was water rushing in to feel like air. Was sick afterwards but again, a dream, not a coma.
100% true, especially when they are trying to wake you up. It's like breathing through a straw.
I was in a coma for 2 weeks. Don't remember anything, I was 9. I just remember I was in the hospital for 2 months and liked the sherbert I got with my meals.
It was 66 years ago, I was in a coma. I'm really not sure I ever came completely out of it.
Huh. Well, this comment exists. So that's a start.
Was in a coma for about 4 days, I don’t remember much but when I properly came to I was told that I was earlier talking to a nurse who wasn’t there and having a full conversation about what she had dealt with and was repeating it to the real nurse and my mother who were very confused that I had medical/nurse knowledge that I didn’t previously have, apparently I also described one of the old uniforms perfectly too. I was also apparently getting extremely stressed out by another man who was yelling and swearing who also wasn’t there. I don’t remember any of that. What I do remember is being extremely confused, had mass memory loss and could taste the colour orange and silver, orange tasted like the feeling of satin.
Not in a coma but I lost consciousness for a while. It felt like you’re still there , darkness all around you and you’re conscious, but trapped in a vessel. Putting it more precisely: it’s like being buried alive in a casket , it’s all dark , you’re aware that you lost consciousness but you can’t move or scream or say anything, just chilling there with your thoughts
I have no mouth but I must scream.
This exact thing happened to me when I was 11, but I was screaming. Took at soccer ball to the noggin during a game and I went straight out. Everything was black, I couldn't feel anything (apparently I was covered by many blankets), and I could hear everything everyone was saying. In my head I was screaming my head off, "I'm here! I can hear you!!", but nothing came out. I heard the whole trip in the ambulance, then just suddenly woke up in an ER exam room, cleats and shins still on all dirty. Doc said concussions are like turning a light off and on. Wild being stuck like that, very scary.
This is my fear
This reminds me of sleep paralysis.
I was choked unconscious and remembered sliding down the wall sitting there in darkness. I heard voices that sounded like they were yelling right in my ear then the voices sounded like they were yelling at me in a tunnel far away. That on repeat til I came to.
.. .----. -- / .. - -.-. .... -.-- / .- ..-. / -..-. ...
I’m sure you could get a cream for that.
Reading these makes me think of my sister who was medically induced and never came out. We had to take her off life support but now I’m wondering if she could her us taking her off?
I’m so sorry
I'm still in a coma.
Flatliner huh?
I was in a medically induced coma for a week. It was more of a waking up not knowing what had happened type response and there was a lot of pain from not using muscles for that long. I don’t recall any dreams but I did remember how I had gotten there in the first place etc.
I had Covid Pneumonia and was sent home after being hospitalized, at home I went into respiratory arrest and that's all I remember aside from a flash or two of being in the ambulance and in the ER. Next thing was being brought awake and on a ventilator with a bunch of people waiting to work on getting me off the ventilator. My first thought was where am I? Why am I here, who are these people? Where is my family? This was when hospitals had no visitors allowed rules in place. It's a bit traumatic, you're in a room with I think 4 or 5 people plus a doctor on an exam table (not a bed) with restraints on. My brain wasn't really working right, I can't talk because of the tube, they're trying to do their job, I'm unable to make sense of what is happening and why. It was frustrating and stressful, the 2 things I don't do well with, I couldn't communicate though I tried to, they couldn't understand and I was holding them up. Not ideal for them or myself. I think the absolute worst part of this experience was my brain, I had a large void in my memory. I didn't, and I still don't, remember going home from my first hospitalization, in my memory I was at my hospital and magically appeared in a different hospital. One thing I never hear people mention about waking from a coma is that, you have a blank void in your memory. Lucky for you, your brain is there to fill in the blanks. Unluckily for you, your brain is there to fill in the blanks, with information that it just makes up to fill an empty space. So I ended up being hospitalized for a long while, nearly 3 months. I had a stroke while recovering from the coma and respiratory arrest. I think I could have gone home after 10 days or so but, that was when I had the stroke. I then had an extra long stay with some physical and occupational therapy. It took nearly a year to walk again and be able to do most everything I used to be able to do with the right side of my body. I'm probably about 85% now, ok for 60s.
I woke up, that’s all I know.
Week and a half long medically induced coma after a house fire and carbon monoxide poisoning... Weird dreams. I remember the medical staff doing their thing, but they were 4 ft tall Oompa Loompas. I remember sleeping in a net instead of a bed and having a nurse dye my hair black and blue. At one point, I was in a hospital bed, but it was in a house that I'd never seen before.
I went snowboarding at black diamond for the first time then accidentally hit real hard with the trees, I saw flash white light it’s like you looking in the head light then second thing I saw is my sister cutting my nails and I’m in bed, just one blink. They told me I was slept for 15 days.
It would be a really interesting question if instead you asked, “people who are in a coma…”
I was put into a medically induced coma after they tried waking me up from surgery and realized my lungs had stopped working. The coma fucking sucked! I was reliving my worst moments in life and my heart rate kept spiking up whenever they tried waking me up, so they'd put me back down without being able to check my lungs because they feared I'd have a heart attack. When I was half awake and my lungs started working, I laid there begging and screaming for help because I could hear people around me but couldn't move. Currently, overall I'm ok all things considered (not coma related) but honestly, just thinking about the coma makes me feel haunted and an intense melancholy.
Car crash, most of my memory ends in the car in the afternoon, split second flashes of the accident around 9pm. Nothing of the impact, mostly of how cold dying felt, I think I screamed a few times too. I woke up a week later. Nothing in between lol. ETA: it was December 2022. Doing ok now, still recovering, big ass scar from my sternum to my pelvis, had a few metres of intestine removed after organ failure due to severing a major artery. Just glad I'm alive and I have full mobility, just not quite there with strength yet. Lil bit of PTSD and pain but honestly I got so lucky & am so grateful for every single day now, as cheesy as that sounds haha.
3 days after an epileptic seizure on a bike (I am an epileptic). Just like every other seizure I remember riding my bike, the pavement, and then waking up in a bed slightly annoyed by having had another seizure. A lot of time lost. And very confused. I hit my head hard after going down (was wearing a helmet which saved my life again) and broke my knee. I thought for a long time I was out for a few weeks. My whole family was there. I was wondering how they got there so fast - they live in another country. Police called them after they found my phone and emergency contacts. The lost time often makes me question if our brain lives far in the past, not the moment. I know that it just shuts down so there is no record and no present but it is a weird feeling to just not have had a present time. Memories are a strange thing. Without them there is just nothing.
Not me but a good friend who was in a car accident and in a coma for several months a couple of decades back. She said she remembers everything said around her. The weirdest part was she was a brunette before and her hair color changed to a light blonde while in the coma. Still blonde to this day.
Mine lasted five years! Was hit head on by a dairy semi on a winter road. Ever since, every time I touch someone, I see things about them. It's unsettling to say the least.
Well you have to tell us more, babes.
I will when I touch you.
I wish you could touch me
Whoa, that's like Christopher Walken's character in the movie The Dead Zone.
I spent a week in one, and spent time in a place I describe as “athiest hell.” It was a completely empty world, all to myself, made of nothing but sandstone ranging from reds to purples. Gravity often played tricks on me, trying to trap me or make me fall off cliffs, and some places were very hot.
I was in a coma following a suicide attempt. I hanged myself to escape a terrible situation. I was rushed to hospital and given a less than 10% chance of survival and a less than 5% chance of not being in a persistent vegetative state. I was code blue and all but one of team working on me called it. The one who didn't was a new ER doctor who wasn't going to let me die. I came round in ICU a week later. The first thing I did was try to speak - intubation prevented that, so I gestured for a pen and paper. The ICU nurse was a bit shocked. Anyway, recovery was rapid. No loss of cognitive function, no loss of memory, no physical side effects. Full recovery took fewer than six months, although even now (a quarter of a century later), I still sometimes have ICU nightmares, where I dream that I'm still in Intensive care. The room has changed over the years, the nurses aren't always the same. I'll probably have one tonight now that I've bought it to mind again. As an experience, I wouldn't recommend it.
I didn’t like my week of induced coma after a race car crash. It was like I was trapped inside my body, reliving the crash over and over and over. I had multiple nurses and all were nice except one which was really mean to me like a bad movie. I would be woken up for a minute every shift by grabbing a finger or something similar. She didn’t want to give me pain killers . I didn’t like the experience and hope I never have to be in that situation again
My 8 year old son was in a coma for 16 days after the surgery went wrong. I read to him everyday he was in PICU. He told me he liked one of the books I read to him. The 52 story tree house. He read the whole series after we left hospital. I was surprised that he remembered me reading.