What's it like to be in a coma?

Answer 1

kind oflike being asleep, or half asleep, depending on how deep your coma is

Answer 2

I was in one for 4 days. I remember dreaming of things but I don't remember them very well and then felt like **** when I woke up. My head hurt really bad. But the coma part I just relate it to sleeping and dreaming.

Answer 3

You Be-coma not-moving person.

Answer 4

My father was in a coma for a week and a half when he had viral incephilitis. His doctors had told us to plan the funeral and that, even if he survived, to expect brain damage. They warned that his chances of a full recovery without brain damage was very slim.

We're Buddhists and a Buddhist teacher gave me a prayer to the Medicine Buddha (the Buddha of healing) to do at his bedside when I went to visit him. She (the teacher) gave me a crystal on which was carved an image of the medicine Buddha. The prayer is this:

I sat holding the crystal to my heart and imagined letters to each word of the prayer, one word at a time, rising out of the earth the color of lapis-lazuli and glowing with blue light. I imagine them coming into into the crystal and then out of the crystal and into my dad's heart. When I imagined each word coming out, I chanted it, so that, word by word, I chanted the prayer.

The words were:

Om, Radiant, lapis, lazuli, Healing, Buddha
(Om is the word by which the universe was created according to Indian mythology - Asian Indian, that is, as opposed to American Indian)

I chanted the prayer over and over again in this way. When I was finished, I was about to leave and turned to my dad, who was lying, eyes shut and comatose, on the hospital bed. I told him I loved him and respected him, that if he needed to leave us, I'd be okay, but if he could return, we'd really like to have him come back to us. I said, "goodbye", thinking that it might be the last time I'd be able to say that while he was alive. At that very moment, his eyes opened and looked right at me. He just lay there with his eyes open, but was unresponsive.

I found out later that people can actually remain in a coma with eyes open, but that the opening of the eyes is a very positive sign. Within days, he came out of his coma and made a full recovery.

He reports extremely realistic experiences that go beyond dreams and it seemed like he was experiencing them for years. At one point, he experienced turning into a bird. He also experienced that he was in a maze or trying to solve a puzzle. He experienced that I came to him and showed him the way out. It was shortly after that last experience that he came out of his coma. He made a full recovery without any brain damage.

Answer 5

It's sort of like going to a business meeting but without coffee.

Answer 6

It's not too good, but it's not too bad either. It's not very exciting, but then again, it's not boring. It's pretty much a living purgatory.

Answer 7

I think it's how your brain feels after spending waaaay too long reading questions/answers on R&S.

Answer 8

Stay in here for 2 days straight and you'll know.

Answer 9

Many know. They walk, talk, work, pay tax, but are dead on the inside.

Answer 10

I'll let ya know when I wake up from mine.