Comas?

I thought of something rather interesting yesterday. When we sleep, we are able to dream, and within those dreams, we (can) become lucid. I was wondering that if someone, who could lucid dream, were to go into a coma, say for a month, then would they be able to lucid dream? Wouldn't that be something? Dreaming for that long. It would be like having an entire second life while you're laying in that hospital bed. Imagine the confusion upon waking.

If, in our, saying, 7-8 hours we spend sleeping, only a few minutes of which are spent lucid dreaming (that we can remember, anyway). If our sleep-hours count went up to the hundreds, even thousands, then it would be, like, an entire lifetime in your dream dimension.

Of course, I am only speculating and thinking. What do you all think?

-Matt

If they dream, then they can have LDs. And then, as you say, a whole "new" dream life. I don't know exactly, but I guess proving this is just a matter of measuring brainwaves. Since they say that you go crazy without REM sleep/dreaming, I'd assume that you do dream while in a coma.

Problem is that the realization that you are in a comma is probably not something that you would want to find out.

It's fun until, "hey, I've been dreaming for what feels like days... and I can't force myself to wake up like usual. Something must have happened to my body... Uh oh... AAAH!!!! AAAAAAAH!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WANT TO WAKE UP NOW!!!!"

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Originally Posted by Dash

Problem is that the realization that you are in a comma is probably not something that you would want to find out.

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But in every documentary I've seen about comas, they say that they heard people talking. I remember one example. The man heard people discussing whether they should "un-plug" him from the machines or not. Ofcourse he could do anything but listen.

I'm sure it depends on the type of coma you're in and what your condition was before you entered the coma.
Perhaps becoming lucid could in turn help you awake from a coma. Hope I never have to find out.

I wonder if comas even allow REM sleep? Or if you are stuck in NREM? Perhaps, since you are a vegetable, you have no need for REM (when in a coma, you are still and internal, with little new information, no real need for memory consolidation, etc.). And even if you did have REM regularly, it would eventually stop once your body reaches its need (this happens in normal sleep if you sleep for X amount of hours). It seems that REM is only needed when the person has been awake for some time.

It would be interesting to see if the coma would give someone the sense of a deeper reality accessible through the "coma" dream journey. I would hope that it would tap into knowledge that belonged to you before we entered this life.

Still , with No REM may mean no chance for a coma full-time dreamer.

If you could become lucid from a coma I think you would be like
- lingering around with no body, locked on no-mans land and wondering for direction.