Or, is it like being asleep? And, if the person is aware of what is going on around them, does he/she feel trapped in their body? What's happening inside a person's head while they are in a coma?
2007-01-17 10:41:08 · 12 answers · asked by Mrs. Brooks 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Every answer you get is speculative. Unless you actually talk to somebody who's just come out of a coma...and even then, they're more likely not to remember/know.
But I think it would be comforting to know that if I were ever in a coma, somebody would be there to talk to me. Unless they touched me in the naughty places...taped it and put that MF up on the web...then that's not so good.
You should check out a movie called: Johnny Got His Gun...
2007-01-17 10:49:59 · answer #1 · answered by allthree 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes they are aware of what is happening around them but not always to the point where they may feel trapped in their body. It is somewhat like being in a very deep sleep. Sometimes they dream while they are in a coma and sometimes nothing is going on (that they can remember)
2007-01-17 18:46:42 · answer #2 · answered by queenz_killarep 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In most cases, people in a coma can hear what others are saying and they can feel it when they are touched. They are trapped in their own body. Within coma itself, there are several categories that describe the severity of impairment. Contrary to popular belief, a patient in a comatose state does not always lay still and quiet. They may talk, walk, and perform other functions that may sometimes appear to be conscious acts, yet are not.
2007-01-17 18:47:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is both awake and sleeping- you fade out and in. You can hear voices, and if someone is there that you know, you recognize that he/she is there.
My niece was in a coma due to brain injury after being hit by a car. I spent a lot of time with her, singing to her, talking and rubbing the few areas on her body that were not injured. She knew the songs and remembered they were ones I had sung to her as lullabies. She remembered purple (I was wearing a purple shirt). And when she was so agitated trying to fight the tubes, the only time she would sleep (she had monitors so they knew she was asleep) was when I was singing to her.
They told us she was having seizures and her fingers were twitching, but her mom recognized that she was spelling words with the Manual Alphabet (that deaf people use) and once we got a printed version and began to translate, we realized that she was telling us she was in pain and what was hurting. (They didn't want to give her pain meds because her breathing rate could have depressed.)
If you are asking for a person you know, please do visit as much as you can, if it is appropriate for you to do so. Even people who have been in comas for years state that some of the time it was like a dream and some of the time they were aware. They hear your voice, sometimes they recognize colors or faces, and they respond to touch. Stay positive, because miracles do happen. I have seen them happen!:)
Good luck to you and your loved one.
2007-01-17 19:18:20 · answer #4 · answered by CYP450 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
well for myself it was more like being asleep but i think it changes from person to person, i tend not to think much about where i "was" during my time in my coma but if nothing else it was the most vivid dream (but i imagine if anyone had a dream that lasted for a week would call it vivid) and enough to change a lot of perspectives i've had on many things in my life
2007-01-17 18:51:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was in a coma from a car accident years ago......
No awareness , no time , dreams , sense of self or others.
Although there are electrical impulses in the brain , you don't dream.....or are not aware of dreams.....
there is much confusion when you wake and fear may accompany this........
2007-01-17 18:48:48 · answer #6 · answered by cesare214 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was pronounce legally dead. I could hear, fell, smell. I even saw the light that the paramedics were flashing in my eyes checking my pupils and asking my mom what my name was while they were smacking my face trying to awake me. We I did wake up in the hospital a day later I told my mom that I heard her screaming when they told her that they couldn't find a pulse. Pretty scary. At that moment, I never guessed how much my mom loved me because I knew.
2007-01-17 18:48:35 · answer #7 · answered by cpaige517 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
From what I've heard, sometimes they can hear what you say and sometimes they can't. But most of the time it is like being asleep.
2007-01-17 18:46:37 · answer #8 · answered by Amber 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its like someone put a pause button on you. its hard to explain u dont know what happen to you until you wake up. like when you get drunk to a point that you dont remember what happen last night kinda thing.
2007-01-17 18:51:33 · answer #9 · answered by allie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is a true coma, they are not conscious. So no.
2007-01-17 18:44:08 · answer #10 · answered by Shayna 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋