Do people who’ve just woken up from a long coma feel like they've just had a really good sleep?
Great question. I’ve had some real dramas in my life…..In 1983, July 25th, I was walking across a crosswalk and was hit by a speeding car landing 20 feet away on my head. I was in a deep coma for 6 weeks and semi conscious for a while….(can’t remember)I want to fast forward to today and am married to a childhood sweetheart who went to High School with me and he often says that after the accident, I changed and I’m different now. Much nicer……that’s what he says….At the time of the accident, I hated my life, I was 15 years old, spent my time skipping school. On the other hand met and was blowing glass with a very creative and successful glassblower and making things and selling them.I hated living at home.One day, in hospital must have been in about September, I remember waking up and thinking; I remember everything that happened yesterday and two weeks ago. I remember sitting on my hospital bed and trying to remember. But didn't remember anything. A nurse came in and started making my bed and I naturally started helping her. She said hi to me, she was pregnant and I may have asked her about being pregnant.I forgot that I was left handed. No one told me for weeks I was writing letters to my boyfriend with my right hand and one day in the shower in hospital, I remembered !!Everything was……cut up into pieces. My brother who I hadn’t seen for years was visiting me all day every day ! All these people were visiting me from high school, I wasn’t popular but now, I was. I got tired very easily and confused and did some very weird things but I kept on thinking…you can do better. Wake up….get through this.It wasn’t like a good sleep. I was scared to re enter society and speak to people with a new….like…..outlook. I was fragile and scared and in a 15 year old body. My family were not good and some bad things happened and I ended up homeless at one stage and I remember waking up in 1984 and thinking I am going to do everything I can do to recover this.It was like I had an overwhelming feeling of compassion or feelings that I didn't know how to contain.My body became…..fat….I was always ….slim to just right before but….I guess it was the body tone…..I just got…fat….that and puberty hitting me.I think the Doctors would say I fully recovered in my latish 30s.
Do you think people in comas can hear?
I was just recently in a coma, for the month of June 2017. Mine was a medically induced coma, meaning that the doctors needed to keep me sedated and intubated while they tried to stop a raging pneumonia infection in my lungs. I had aspirated and fluid and vomit had accumulated in my lungs. I was severely septic and my mom and husband were told to prepare for the worst, that I would not make it out of the coma alive.I do not remember most of the conversations had around or near me. The ICU doctor said that it was because of all the medication they had to give me to keep me comatose also does a number on your mind. Three medications were used: Versed, Propofol and Morphine. The only thing I remember distinctly is my pastor coming into my room and reading the 46th psalm and laying hands on me to heal. I distinctly remember every single word. And that psalm is now tattooed on my right arm. As for the rest of my coma, I believe I was hearing everything, but just unable to recall it when I awoke. My husband said they would play music in the ICU room and I would move my feet and hands to the beat of the music. They said I danced all the time. To me, that was very reassuring.My father was also in a medically induced coma when he passed away. He died from mesothelioma, basically a complete scarring of his lungs from prior asbestos exposure. I was speaking with him after we found out he would be passing away when they took him off the ventilator, and for about three seconds he opened his eyes and looked at me. I truly believe he was listening to me and took every ounce of strength he had left to open his eyes—what a wonderful gift.
Am I evil? I'm scared. Bad things happen to people I don't like.?
Wow, well you certainly are good at writing. I believe it is Karma but I can't be 100% sure of what power you might posses. I do believe that you possibly could be psychic but you are not evil. To be honest there are similarities with both of us in which people that I have hated during my life have ended up with something bad happen to them. One guy that I hated also ended up in a coma and is now a quadriplegic and I was the same as you when I heard. As much as I hated him I still felt bad and never wanted something that bad to happen to him. I've always been aware of the fact that people who have been mean to me have something bad happen to them and honestly I do find it quite comforting to know that in some way they will pay for what they do to me. Just remember we can't control the extent of their punishment, it's out of our hands. There are even times when I also think I could be psychic. Sometimes I will have dreams about certain things and a few days later something in the world will happen that is very similar to what I dreamed. It could be something like a plane crash or a bomb going off in the world or a serious car crash occurring close to my town but I've learnt to just accept it's how I am. You should do the same and don't worry about being evil because you are not. :)
If you woke up after sleeping for a thousand years, what would you ask first?
Can you understand me?Is there any emergency I have to worry about soon?How artificial/constructed is this context I see? What is the world really like outside this room?Am I on Earth? Do we have easy space flight?What is the current political and economic system?Are there others from my time? Can I meet them?What are my responsibilities?How much has physics changed?Do we have molecular nanotechnology?What are my options for body modification? Psychological modification?Why did you bother to wake me up? Who is my sponsor and what do they want / expect from me?What is my life expectancy?Now that I’ve listed these questions, I realize that many of them seem very fearful and vigilant. If I woke up in a society that had the ability to wake me up after 1000 years, I’d probably be worried about completely the wrong things. Just like a person waking up from 1000 AD would not have to worry about starving, or getting killed by wolves, but they would have to worry about getting an electric shock or being hit by a car.Once I realized that I was safe from the things I was worried about, I’d probably start asking about morality.What things were accepted in white middle-class USA in 2018 that are completely morally unacceptable here? (Killing insects with bare hands? Going out in public with a contagious disease? Eating meat from animals? Spreading urban legends?)What things are accepted today that I might have trouble accepting? (Infanticide? Overt racism/classism? Slavery?)What are the current sexual taboos?What are the big moral questions today?What beliefs and behaviors will I be expected to adopt before I will be acceptable to society?