Has something so bad ever happened that you didn't think it was real?

Answer 1

Yes, I literally went crazy once because of the meds I was on and spent three days in the psych ward of the hospital. Didn't seem real, but it very much was.

Answer 2

My husband was on his way to work and was in a terrible motorcycle accident (a semi was in his lane and they met at the top of a hill). He was doing 65, the other guy was doing 55, and they hit head on. I didn't know and went to work at my moms office, I was helping her catch up on some paperwork and billing (I had our seven month old daughter in the car with me).
When I arrived at the office, my mom was on the phone the the minister at a local hospital. My husband had been taken by helicopter to a city 45 miles from our home, and the weather was so bad that once that hosptial decided they couldn't fix him, he had to be taken by ambulance another 100 miles to Columbia MO, where they would end up keeping him. I didn't scream, I didn't cry, I didn't even react. I just started putting things together, my mother piled in her van, we strapped my daughters carseat into the van and the three of us (my mother, my daughter and I) headed for Columbia. I couldn't even react, it just didn't seem real. Surely nothing this terrible could be happening to my family. Not when our lives were finally perfect. My husband had just become a paramedic and I was studying to be a medical billing specialist.
They ended up having to induce a coma because his injuries were so bad that pain medicine wasn't enough. For three weeks they told me every day. "your husband is going through systematic organ failure, we have him on every machine we have, and they are all at max output, one more tiny thing goes wrong and he's gone. Make your peace, you can't stay the night in his room and he won't make it through the night"
He'll never be the man he was, but he is home and walks with a cane. He walks. I won't go into what all his injuries were, there were five huge binders of medical charts on him at the end of the three weeks, and they measured over three feet in height when stacked. He's home but he still has many residual problems.
Yes, the first 14 hours after I found out, I didn't cry, I didn't shout, I didn't really understand. I was 23 years old, my husband was going to be 23 in a week, his first fathers day was the same day as his birthday, and we had a seven month old daughter whom we loved more than life itself. So how could it be really happening?

Answer 3

Sure- watching the news on Sept. 11, 2001 and seeing the World Trade Center burning and people jumping to their deaths. The whole day of the attacks was surreal.

Answer 4

was in a motorcycle wreck going 100 mph. Wasn't really scared at all it seemed kind of like a dream or something, but the dream didn't last long b/c i got knocked stupid seconds after the whole thing started happening. I don't know how to explain it.

Answer 5

I got into a car wreck when I was sixteen. I was not seriously injured, but I remember the car rolling and then landing upside down and me thinking I needed to wake up.

Also, I was attacked by my ex and had to go to the emergency room. He beat me up pretty bad and at one point I was sure he was going to kill me. I couldn't believe it when he finally left me alone, I thought for a minute that maybe I was dead.

Horrible feeling that nobody should ever have to experience.

Answer 6

I was sleeping in the morning of 9-11. My wife came in and told me the towers had collapsed and I thought she was just telling me that as a joke to get me up.

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

YES, a close friend was running a crew to clean the parks. HE was on a tractor and some one san off the road hit his tractor and killed him instantly. IT was like it wasnt real. 9-11 was so unreal. to me

Answer 9

9/11 and Katrina

Answer 10

More than once. But I think the worst was when my parents died in a car accident. It took me days...(weeks?) to believe that was real.