35 People Share The Details They Remember From When They Were In A Coma

Comas aren’t something most of us encounter often. Outside of TV shows or movies, they’re unlikely to touch the life of the average person. Still, many wonder what people in a coma feel, see, or hear while they’re unconscious. One curious Redditor took this question online, asking coma survivors what they remembered. The responses poured in, and, as with most things in life, each person’s experience of being comatose was quite unique, as you can read for yourself below.

#1

Image source: fibergum, freepik I crashed my motorcycle early this year at a roundabout, I went to give way to a car and as a braked the front wheel lost traction the bike went sliding and I went right into a pole and snapped my femur. I had a fat embolism, which is when some of the fat from the bone marrow gets into your bloodstream it went through to my lungs and brain. I had to be put into an induced coma. I was under for 12 day breathing on machine while my lungs cleared up and I could have been severely brain damaged, the coma itself was very vivid and I was super confused when I woke. I dreamt I was working as a nurse in a plastic surgery which was under the hotel I was staying at in Bali. I thought I had been in Bali for a good week after a woke up and couldn't remember that I had a crash, unless someone told me about it which I would forget by the next day, it made for a very confusing time. All the people I met and worked with in my dream felt as real as my family and sometimes it actually makes me feel a bit down that I will never see them again. Tldr: coma was great fun would do again.

#2

Image source: FosterTheFool, wayhomestudio I slipped and banged my head while hiking about a decade ago. I was out for about a day and a half. To me, I went straight from the sensation of falling on the trail being awake in a hospital bed. I'd liken it to a light switch flipping my consciousness off and then on.

#3

Image source: twistmental, pvproductions Hit by a car, ran over by a truck. Anesthetic coma for a month. Lots of nightmares of being ripped apart over and over. Lots of nightmares of various types of imprisonment. I'm pretty sure I felt them remove my left leg, because of a nightmare about being in an ambulance and Robin Williams was cutting into my left [bum] cheek and singing songs from his movies. I read all the stories here of just deep sleeping through it and I'm jealous honestly. Among amputees, my story seems common for those who went under. I don't wish it on anyone. For a month I faced the very worst horrors my mind could concoct and loop me through. I [perished] time and again. I woke up a different person. There are fates worse than [demise]. I know that as a stone cold fact now.

#4

Image source: B1naryG0d, freepik This past July I was in a terrible car wreck. Immediately after arriving at the hospital they put me in an induced coma which I remained in for one full week. I was hallucinating a lot thanks to the medicine they were giving me. I didn't realize that I was in a hospital. I actually thought that I was in a facility where you could make yourself younger by using other people's lives as fuel. Obviously using someone's life as fuel means that they [perish]. I was afraid during this entire week and a few days afterwards that they were going to use my family as fuel for someone else's life to make them younger. I was also afraid they were going to use my life as fuel as well. I felt so helpless. Because of the tubes going down my throat I wasn't able to speak so I couldn't tell anyone in my family what was going on while they were visiting me. A very frightening experience to say the least. Luckily the [medicine] wore off after a few days and once I was coherent I started to calm down.

#5

Image source: momadance, freepik I got hit by an underage drunk driver while I was biking home from work in college. It was a hit and run. I got hit pretty hard and broke a lot of bones, even knocked my teeth out when I slammed my face on the handle bars. I was in a coma for 12 days. I woke up in a lot of pain and very confused. Thankfully, they did all the surgeries on my bones while I was out cold. I remember my family all standing around me staring and crying and then the doctor coming in to check my pupils. The doctor asked, "Do you know what day it is?" and before I could answer I heard my mom say, "Ask her a question she'd know even if she hadn't been unconscious" with sarcasm. The last thing I remember is the feeling of the air streaming across my face as I flew forward on impact, even though the paramedics said I was awake when they got there. Apparently I kept telling them I was fine and just wanted to go home but as soon as they got me in the ambulance I was out cold. I didn't hear anything even though my loved ones were talking to me. I woke up thirsty and sore and just so confused. I kept asking, "What the hell happened?" as I stared at my limbs which were in casts and hanging from contraptions on the bed. I had no concept that any time had passed. Then I relearned to walk and life went on with lots of problems but as my doctors always say I should have [be gone] or at least be paralyzed so I'm incredibly lucky.

#6

Image source: ThisisNOTAbugslife, DC Studio 5 roll over car accident, no seat belt, ejected, car rolled over me and broke my bones head to toe. Picked up by emergency helicopter on the side of the ZYZZX freeway. Was in a coma for 2 1/2 weeks I believe from a mild head concussion, but of course the other injuries may have helped. I believe I woke up at one point in agonizing pain, they then put me in a medically induced coma and put me on a boat load of [meds]. I spent 2 1/2 months in the hospital. It's actually amazing that for maybe the first few weeks I barely asked what happened. The one and most MAJOR memory of coming out of this coma was when they removed the catheter from my privates. Apparently I went from half consciousness to eyes wide open and I turned and slapped the nurse. After hearing this I apologized multiple times, she said "No worries! That actually happens a lot!" What a job that must be. I have no memory of anything whilst in the coma, also the last memory I have pre-accident was the car jerking around a bit as the driver was falling asleep and veering off the road.

#7

Image source: motomushu, Azimbek Assarov Got ran over by a big truck on my motorcycle. Girlfriend was on the back. We were both in a coma. She eventually [passed]. I spent 8 days in a coma. No dreams, no thoughts, no pain, just nothing. It was like a wormhole, one minute I was riding my bike, then I woke up briefly in the ER when they shoved a tube into my face, then I woke up 8 days later, disoriented and in a lot of pain. It took me awhile to remember what happened. Ended up losing a leg, but I'm lucky to be here, so no complaints. Big shout out to EMT's and doctors and nurses everywhere, you guys are awesome :)

#8

Image source: jmartinez0612, DC Studio Don't remember much only that I was rushed to hospital with SAH (brain hemorrhage from burst aneurysm) Doctors decided to induce coma due to the amount swelling. I was in coma for about a week. I only remembered hearing familiar voices and calling out to them, but they could not hear me. I drifted in/out of my unconsciousness trying to get someone to talk back to me, it was totally black, I realized that I was not awake. Every time I heard a voice whether familiar or not I would start to talk....no answers...I cried screaming but still they could not hear me. "Why?" I asked myself. I was on a life support. I could feel the pain in my head. I woke up with hospital staff asking me if I knew where I was.

#9

I was in a really bad accident when I was 12 and don't want to make this long so if you want details I will tell you. Anyway I ended up falling into a coma and had no response they said that because there was a 90% chance I was going to [perish] with my injuries that there was really no point in keeping me alive when I still needed to have a lot more major surgeries done. A day and a half later I woke up. My accident happened on 12/15/06 in Mexico. My family and I went down for Christmas and because my dad wanted to buy land to make a vacation home. My dad's best friend invited us to go to the river and BBQ so we did. Around 8-9pm we left and like 25 minutes later a diesel truck hit us head on. The road was narrow and it was a two way so when we went around a corner the drunk truck driver merged into our lane and hit us. It dragged us a few meters and while being dragged the truck was rolling and it ended up rolling upside down to the side of the road. I remember when we got hit my mother screamed and I saw our headlights flash some trees. After it stopped rolling I had a feeling they had all died which was right but my body was in shock It did not process. I heard my sister cry and I told her everything would be okay. My dad, my pregnant mom, and my older sister passed away. I went to 2 hospitals in Mexico and both told me I would die then I get brought back to California and 1/2 told me I wasn't going to make it. 16 surgeries in my stomach (seatbelt almost cut me completely in half and also cut my throat), 25 blood transfusions, both collapsed lungs, kidney exploded in the accident, lost a few inches off my intestines, lost my spleen, neck/ head/ spinal injuries, and gained a metal hand. My right hand so I had to become a lefty. Lucile Packard children's hospital saved my life. I am 21 now and next years will be 10 years. My family was buried in Mexico and I'm planning on visiting. When I was in Mexico's hospital I had 5 major surgeries I needed because everything in my abdominal area tangled up together. My stomach was opened and needed to be bandaged up for 2 years after so it would slowly heal by itself without them having to close it up because of infections. The first few days is when I fell into a coma after the 2nd surgery. Image source: naruto_niichan

#10

Image source: thatoneoff, Frolopiaton Palm Then-husband beat me unconscious with an iron. I started coming out of the coma about 3 weeks later. I can vaguely recall a few moments of awareness - I could tell it was bright in the room, I could hear voices, but nothing made sense, and then it would go back to darkness. The first clear memory I have is of nurses talking as they were changing the dressing on arm, and I can remember panicking, not really knowing what was happening. I was too weak, and beat up, to really do much, and the one nurse talked to me until I calmed down. After that, I was still sleeping a lot, but I was awake and aware every day. I have no memory of the coma itself, but my mother visited me every day, and says the staff would talk to me when they were in the room. Apparently, they knew I was going to come out of it a day before I started coming around.

#11

Image source: justscottaustin, wirestock I had a very serious head injury. I don't quite recall the specifics of the swelling, but I was out for a little over 3 days, they said. I woke up as if someone had turned a light back on. I immediately tried to get up; I thought I was still on the mountain I was skiing.

#12

I had attempted [taking my life]. I was nearly successful and was in a coma for about three weeks, then it took me a while longer to fully come out of it. When I was passing out, I remember everything felt white-ish and fuzzy and light, like I had put down a burden I had been carrying for ages. While I was out, it was nothing. I don’t remember the ambulance or getting to the hospital or being intubated or anything like that. Coming out of it was super slow. It took weeks, apparently. I remember it was like swimming below water. The surface of the water was consciousness. And I would be just floating under there. There was nothing I could do about it an no place I could go. I could sometimes hear people speak - but muffled, as if I were under water; and perceive dim light on the surface, but that was it. And it was only for a short period of time, and then I would slip back down deeper again, and it was nothing again. Gradually, it was like I would get closer and closer to the surface and almost wake up. But I didn’t know what that surface was. I didn’t know what was “up” there and I really didn’t care. It was just a fact of my existence that didn’t seem to affect me much, and I didn’t pay much attention to it until I got REALLY close to being awake, and it started to intrude on my little underwater float-y world. Apparently, I would finally flicker in and out of consciousness - I don’t remember this part at all, and apparently I wasn’t actually self aware. Like, I could start responding to people - sort of, then increasingly intelligibly - but it didn’t make all that much sense, esp. because I had tubes and all that stuff, I guess. Most of this time for me was just that floating thing. They must have taken the tube out at some point, because my husband told me that I spoke to him a lot - and told him what had happened and why I had attempted to [end my life]. But again, I don’t remember. When I gained consciousness, I was more surprised than I think anyone else, as they were expecting it for days. And then “why does my throat hurt so much?” I couldn’t walk or move my arms or anything for a while after that and had to stay in cardiac ICU for a while. I remember my aunt and uncle being there and my in laws and my husband, and having lots and lots of tubes and wires and stuff being attached to me. It wasn’t so bad, really. But, waking up all the way was a bit of a bummer. Image source: UnicornOnTheJayneCob

#13

I was in an induced coma. I remember being unresponsive. I could hear them asking me to respond and I was trying, but I couldn't. I remember hearing ICU and then I woke up 4 days later. I woke up shaking as if I was having a seizure. My dad told my mom that it was just me coming off the propofol (he's a nurse). I woke up and I immediately started to process thoughts because I knew why I was there. I made sure I knew my name, and basic stuff. It took me a few minutes to realize I was intubated and that I was hooked up to all these wires. But it felt like being asleep. I didn't dream. I don't remember falling into the coma. I recalled some stuff when I was awake. I told a doctor that he looked very familiar - like we went on a date or something - and he said he was the one who intubated me; so, I was apparently awake for that, but I don't actively remember it. There are things that my brain remembers, but it doesn't know why - if that makes sense. Image source: buttscoots

#14

I was put into a medically induced coma in 2009, I had Swine Flu and pneumonia and my lungs were pretty much 3/4 full of blood and other fluid... I was out for almost 2 weeks. I had one dream and it was interesting. I don't remember much of it now, I have it written down somewhere, but the biggest thing I do remember was how time passed in it. Most of the dreams I have, if I'm going somewhere, the time it takes to "travel" in the dream is insignificant, generally a couple of seconds if that. In this dream, it was like real time. I drove to a house and it literally felt like the drive in my dream took hours. Also, when I walked, I wasn't touching the ground, I was floating. I woke up restrained to the bed because I had yanked the tubes out of my mouth. I was told it took a while for them to revive me and get me back on the ventilator. Image source: viciouswicked

#15

I was 5 days in coma due to a motocross crash. The week before my crash (which was actually school exams :D !), the crash itself and even few days after I woke up at hospital simply doesn't exist at all for me. It has been totally erased from my memory and never came back (it was 12 years ago). So I guess I didn't had all my faculties when I woke up contrarilly to most of people here. It should have been all blury at first. The closest to my awakening that I can remember is that I was very anxious, litterally becoming crazy because of this gap in my life. It might seem stupid but I was really lost bc of that. Always asking questions to try to reconstruct that "hole". Then I eventually gave up and went away :D I think that having to cope with this whole episode of PTSD has been one of the most important thing that I have accomplished in my life. Image source: so_boring_those_ID

#16

Image source: xathemisx, Frederic Köberl I fell off a 5-story building. I was in a coma for two weeks. I was mostly dreaming very strange dreams induced by the morphine. I do remember glimpses of nurses. But not really. Waking up two weeks later is what really shocked me. I tried to get up like nothing had happened. Then I realized I had a broken foot and a body brace. And I was tied up. I had yanked the tunes and IV several times and even scratched the doctors and nurses. The whole situation overall just gave me a shock when I woke. Idk how I woke up though. I just did. I was 15.

#17

Image source: anon, pvproductions Car accident, severe head injury. I was out for a week or so. It isn't at all like movies or TV shows - you don't just wake up as you do from sleep. It's a very gradual process, over days. I remember only coming to partially a couple of times. My family had a radio playing constantly in my hospital room. Once when I woke up partially I remember thinking we were in the radio station and the male nurse was the DJ. A few other images like that, much like from dreams. I don't remember the accident itself and was told that is normal. The mind erases or represses extreme memories like that. I do remember everything until the day of the accident though. Was told accident patients often can't remember days or weeks prior to their accidents. Overall it was much like being asleep but there was little to no sense of time having passed. No light at the end of the tunnel or suspension in mid air looking down on my body. Mostly nothingness. SorryNotSorry.

#18

I have Vasculitis that caused my lungs to fill up with fluid. I had to be put in a coma and on a ventilator for a week. Since I had a tube down my throat and couldn't speak I had a notebook that I would write into in between long periods of being asleep. A few things that I was told that happened but don't remember are telling my mom that there was an old woman sitting next to me (it was actually the ventilator making noise) and a little boy sitting across the room (it was a stack of folded blankets). There was also a priest at the hospital. He was old, black and also blind. He would wander the halls and use his hands to find doors ways and ask if anyone wanted to talk to him. He stopped at my room and my mom said no thanks. But I energetically waved him in. He came in prayed with my mom and gave her a Rosary. The funny thiing is we are not at all religious and my mom was pretty freaked out about the whole thing. My sisters said the washed my hair and clipped my nails while I was out. What I do remember is waking up for a few seconds and seeing my sister viable upset with her boyfriend holding her in the corner. Another moment that I woke up and I saw my ex boyfriend visiting me and talking to my sister at the foot of my bed. At one point I woke up and everything thing was shaded lilac. It was like some someone took eye dropper of lilac coloring and put a drop in each eye. Lastly, I remember being so thirsty it was literally painful. I had no idea there was a tube down my throat and woke up asking for something to drink. My mom told me I couldn't have anything. I begged for just some ice, but she told me again I couldn't have any. I was so desperate I remember crying. My mom looked so upset she just rubbed my head and told me to go back to sleep. When I finally woke up completely and had the tube removed saw the notebook I had been writing in and it was the weirdest feeling seeing all these conversations I've had and remembering any of them. I still have the notebook but I try not to look at often. It's really upsetting think about what my family went through and how close I was to [the end]. My stomach was pretty messed up for a little while because I was being fed by a tube and it took me a week to get all my strength back and walk with out a walker or any assistance. Image source: SpreadySpaghetti

#19

I was in artificial coma for 3 days after an motorcycle accident. I remember that they were making me ready for the surgery and then nothing really. My parents told me later that sometimes they would wake me up and make me talk to see if everything was alright, but i don't recall any of this. All i remember is that they wake me up two times to tell me that they would open me up because there was still some internal bleeding. - The first time they said that the surgery was ok but that i was still bleeding so they had to patch me up again "from inside". - And the second time they wake me up strapped to the bed with a tube in the mouth (for breathing i guess) but i could only breath through the mouth so that was not a great moment to experience... I remember also been kinda shocked when my mother told me we were Wednesday and not Sunday. That was like a big sleep really. Image source: Samsam26

#20

Car accident survivor here. Long story short: I was hit by a car at 13 (non-responsive, not breathing) and resuscitated when paramedics arrived. Fortunately the hospital was a block from my crash site and then placed me into a medically induced coma once I arrived at the hospital. I had internal bleeding on my brain and a fractured skull and was flown via helicopter to a medical jet that took me from Kennewick, WA to Harborview in Seattle. The entire trip took less than 45 minutes or so. The only thing I remember pre-coma was lying on a stretcher with a woman who was standing above me that said "CopsGotTanks, I'm going to give you a catheter, do you know what that is?" I mumbled and wasn't coherent whatsoever (sort of like in that state between almost being asleep and actually being asleep) and then she says "It's a slim tube I'm going to insert and shoves a tube (or whatever it was) into my urethra and I passed out. If I remember correctly (lol@braindamage) the medical staff had an idea of when I was going to get out of the coma. Evidently, Harbourview in Seattle is one of the top hospitals for neurological work. I was definitely completely gone that entire time, though I remember for a few months afterwards having strange recall of conversations and events that happened in my hospital room, but could never make out what they were. It felt very similar to attempting to recall a hyperrealistic dream but without full information. Image source: CopsGotTanks

#21

I was in a medically induced coma with full medical paralysis for about a month after coming down with ARDS, a raging case of sepsis, multiple organ failure and as an added bonus, necrotizing fasciitis (flesh eating bacteria). Most of the time, I was unconscious and had some wild, vivid dreams that are still like reality to me to this day. However, there were a handful of times that I woke up in my head. This was not good. I had no idea what had happened to me, what was happening to me and if I was ever going to be OK again. I could hear everything around me during these times and feel when people would touch me, but I couldn't open my eyes, move a muscle or speak. It was beyond terrifying. In spite of everything and all of the doctors thinking I was going to die, I'm totally fine. A little scarred from where the flesh eating bacteria treated me like a buffet, but other than that, no long term consequences that I am aware of. Image source: TheOpus

#22

Open-heart surgery patient checking in. Bit of a SNAFU during surgery caused me to be in a medically-induced coma for two weeks. I'd love to tell you all about how I saw a bright light, and heard angels singing and whatnot, but the truth is it was just like a really long nap, from which you occasionally wake for a second, feel tubes sticking out of every orifice, and nope back to sleep. Image source: pissclamato

#23

When i was 7 years old our house caught on fire. My dad was on xanax at the time, which is why the fire started and i couldn't wake him up. I ended up fainting or something and woke up a week later in the hospital. I didnt remember anything except a split second of be strapped down and air lifted to the hospital. I just woke up and wondered how my grandparents got here there so fast since they lived in a different state at that time. Image source: iPooedAlittle

#24

I was experiencing basic signs of congestive heart failure and started coughing up blood on a road trip. Breathing become shallower and shallower, with more and more wheezing. Made it to the emergency room in my hometown hyperventilating as my lungs were filling up with blood. Last thing I remember is screaming for help at the front desk. Little flashes here and there: wanting to be able to speak or have a sip of water (tube down my throat), frustration, haze, lots of anger. I remember my mother had brought in a letter chart that they use with nonverbal children to try and spell out what I wanted. I hazily remember great frustration with trying to communicate while intubated. On Thanksgiving of last year, a full 2 weeks after I had arrived in the emergency room, they fully brought me out of the induced coma. It was rough the first few days/nights still being so heavily [medicated]. I had also gone into afib upon awaking and had had a lung biopsy to rule out further issues. I remember a terrifying nightmare as I lay there sweating one of the first nights out of the coma, the flashing lights and sound of the medical helicopter combined with the heavy medications to create a hallucination where I was apologizing and terrified I had brought hordes of people upon the hospital and that there was no escape. I had to have physical therapy to regain muscle and control in my legs while in the ICU. I also could not use the restroom on my own or control my bowels upon originally awaking. Little by little, I emerged from the haze of medication and was able to walk up and down the hallway and up a few steps. I was released at the end of November. A week later I went to Cleveland Clinic for open-heart surgery, the anesthesia put me to sleep and I was far more alert and awake 4 hours later when I woke in their ICU. I spent only 6 hours in the ICU (as compared to the previous 2 weeks) and in all I was only there for a week, with 3 months at home for recovery. TL;DR - Coughed up blood, slept for 2 weeks, open heart surgery. TL;DRTL;DR - No light, nothing. Image source: Daveman84

#25

I had a seizure when I was a little kid that knocked me in a coma for about half the day. I remember eating my lunch my mom had just made me (bologna sandwich w mayonnaise) and then waking up in the hospital later that night to pretty much my entire family looking at me. I was very confused as to where I was and what had happened, but from what I remember it was just like sleeping. Image source: DJBobbyC

#26

I had a colectomy (large intestine removed) a couple of years ago. 8 weeks after (I was already home, and had been given the 6 week post op all clear from my surgeon), I suffered a complication. I started throwing up constantly and was in some pretty severe pain. I was admitted back into the hospital, and my surgeon came into the room to speak with me and my husband. He said it looked like there might be a blockage, and that they wanted to run some tests the next day. He didn't seem particularly concerned. That conversation is the last thing I remember clearly. I woke up 5 days later in the I.C.U. Apparently as they were taking me down for the test I went into septic shock. My husband remembers clearly me asking a nurse if I was [perishing]. Her answer of something along the lines of "we're doing the best we can", scared the [hell] out of him. He said that's the most frightened he's ever been. They ended up rushing me to surgery. I couldn't get a straight answer from anyone after the fact, but a nurse led me to believe I coded at some point. The first surgery was done by laparoscopy, this one was completely open. They cut from my belly button to my pelvis, and across my bikini line. After the surgery I was placed in an induced coma. I remember very small snippets. A sentence here or there. My husband took a picture...it's nothing like the movies...I was attached to a bank of machines, with tubes everywhere. Now I suffer from PTSD. I think it has more to do with losing the day before everything went [wrong]. I don't remember what it felt like to go into sepsis. I don't know if there were any warnings. So every time I have a twinge, or I don't feel well, I worry that the same thing is happening again. It's been two years, it's getting better, but I cry almost every time I have to talk about it. Editing to actually answer your questions: Coma was medically induced. Remember hearing a sentence or two throughout the 5 days. They brought me out of the coma, and the recollection is fuzzy, but I believe it was a gradual awareness. Everything around that time is fuzzy even beyond the coma as I was also on HEAVY antibiotics and pain medication. Edit to the Edit: I do clearly remember being absolutely flabbergasted that 5 days had passed. Image source: CheekyMonkeyMama

#27

Image source: bigDIII, pixaflow One I can answer! I was in a coma for a little over 3 weeks, I had a blood infection (Strep Group A) which was pretty bad. Early on during it, they called the family in to say goodbye kinda stuff. The short of it is, no, I don't remember much, I kinda remember when I was coming out of it, being pretty pissed off at my dad for not letting me go see my dogs or not bringing my dogs up to see me or something like that, called him [a jerk]...he took it well though. My wife was there almost the entire time, she believes prayer & a positive energy pulled me though. I'm not a believer though, my $$ is on medical science and the care of professionals (especially the nurses!). Other than that slight memory at the end, there was NOTHING, no bright light, no memory of people talking to me (which my wife tells me was constant), nothing at all. I woke up and was transferred to a normal room (out of the ICU) and tried to get up & walk to the bathroom one night right after getting transferred, they told me not to, but dummy me thought I knew better...I didn't. That made for a very embarrassing episode that I was sure to not repeat. I didn't get back up until I was up on the rehab ward and the professionals there were assisting me. All in all I spent almost 3 months in the hospital with me loosing nearly a month out of that time, just GONE. It was quite the humbling experience.

#28

Late to the game, but I fell off a skateboard when I was 16. I was in a coma for 3 days. I had some brief moments of semi-consciousness, but all I really experienced during those times was darkness and pain. Image source: anon

#29

I was in a terrible car accident when I was 16. Head injury, blah blah, induced coma for 58 days. I remember nothing. I had to learn everything over again. How to wipe, how to shower. I will say it was fun having the cute nurses show me how. I had two more months of all three therapies, occupational, physical, and speech. It's been almost 23 years, and I'm still not right. I still remember very little. Image source: Ralph-Hinkley

#30

I had an asthma attack when I was 7 that when coupled with my allergies caused me to go into a coma for 7 days. It felt like nothing, I saw nothing, and when I came out of it I was so confuse and wondering where I was and why I was in a tent (a pure oxygen tent for breathing purposes). I wish I could say more, but I literally just ceased to exist for a week is all I can say. Image source: Leadfooted_mnky

#31

Image source: moonstalkernight, freepik I was in a coma for about 3 weeks as the result of being hit by a car. Many broken bones...Quite a strange experience...I remember coming out of it and having a thirst like nothing I have ever experienced. They wouldn't let me drink anything for two days either...just ice chips...it was really frustrating:).

#32

Male (31). At age 3 I took a dive Into a sidewalk from a 2.5 story balcony head first. Was in coma for 3 months. Mom said it was like I woke up a newborn at age three. To this day I still have fragments of memories before, during, and after it happened up until I went out to the balcony. Image source: Distahs

#33

I was in a really bad car wreck a few months ago and [messed] up my internals and got an awful case of pneumonia, so they put me in a medically induced coma. I remember being awake a few times. The first time was when my sister came to visit. I have really fuzzy memories about what happened, but apparently the only thing I said was "am I still prettier than you?" Even with all of my ribs broken and being mostly unconscious still have A+ quality snark Another time when I was conscious was when they put a catheter in. The only other thing I remember was 4th of July because of the fireworks. When I finally woke up I could swear only 3 days had gone by, but in reality it was 2 months. Image source: Lucious91

#34

I was in a coma for about four days after a car crash. I don't recall anything of the crash itself, and the whole day/week is really fuzzy in my mind. It seems I was out could instantly after the crash. I remember waking up in a hospital bed, but that is also fuzzy, like distorted lights in the ceiling, nurses uniforms colors, my parents... nothing concrete. The most vivid thing is the pain, and asking for something for the pain, also being confused about where I was, wanting to go home, strange dreams that couldn't have happened... I think I was in that state for about 3 weeks, then I remember more, but for example I had two surgerys after a week and a half and I don't remember anything at all. I think I become more conscious of what was going on after a month or so. I remember snippets of things, like my dad put an ipod with an audio book with the Harry Potter books on repeat (funny, because after a few months I lost my hearing, crash related too). My mom told me they communicated with me when I fist awoke by making me blink, or signal to things in a paper. I don't remember anything at all. She told me they were not sure if I had brain damage or if I would recognize them at all, but that when I heard my dads voice my eyes moved to that direction. Don't know if that's relevant. I always have find it difficult to deal with that lost time, since it really bugs me that those things happened but I have no recollection of them at all, I guess I will have that issue forever. Image source: reinadeluniverso

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I was in a serious car accident and was put into a medical coma when the EMT's arrived at the scene for fear of my injuries. I was only in a coma for about 24 hours. When I woke up, I vaguely knew I had been in a wreck, but had no idea how long I was out. I was surprised to see my dad at the foot of my bed, and asked him how he had gotten there so fast, not knowing that I had been in a coma. (I knew I was in a different city then where he lived.) Other than that, there's not much to it. I don't really remember anything about an hour previous to being put into a coma, and other than that, had no idea how long I had been out. It only felt like a matter of minutes. Image source: crazy_balls