When people go into a comatose state, whether it be from a blow to the head or medically induced, what is going on in their mind? Would they be dreaming throughout the duration of their unconsciousness :shock:?
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When people go into a comatose state, whether it be from a blow to the head or medically induced, what is going on in their mind? Would they be dreaming throughout the duration of their unconsciousness :shock:?
That is a good question! Unfortunately, it is a difficult one to answer as there are many causes of comatose states. Moreover, recall is a patient-recall is dubious, and there is no absolute neurological pattern to indicate whether one is dreaming, or not. But I hope someone else can give some more insight.
I too have wondered this for quite some time. no I don't want to get sent into a coma to find out, though it is interesting
I know people who have been in comas, and i know people who know people who have been in comas, and most of them say that they can't remember a thing. the person that was in a coma for nearly a year said that he thought it was less than a week. But who knows, it could be different for some people
My father was in a light coma once (he had Gerigh's disease) and when he woke up he "remembered" being taken to this particular hospital - something that never actually happened. I guess you could say he'd been dreaming.
A friend of mine fell off the back of a motorbike. He wasn't wearing a helmet.
He was in a coma for a few months. Unfortunately he is not quite "right" in the head now. He says he had bad nightmares while he was in the coma. He said it was similar to what you see in Iron Maiden pictures.
I have a fear that's somehow related to this. I used to fear getting too much into my mind and going into some kind of a coma.
Now that I've found out that other people can do that and that it's called lucid dreaming it somehow seems "safer" and I don't fear it anymore. But in the past I had wakened myself from some Lucid dreams just for the fear of getting stuck in them.
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Originally Posted by Teratzul
:uhm: what? i didn't quite get that
What I meant was that when I started Lucid Dreaming I had no idea the phenomenon was called that. I had no way of knowing if it was a hallucination or a something else. If to that you add the fact that I only had WILDs, then you can imagine I was a bit spooked out.Quote:
Originally Posted by lagunagirl
I could see that being pretty scary. Imagine what people 1000 years ago must have thought about lucid dreaming. Pretty good foundation for a religion or two ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Teratzul