How does it feel like to wake up from a coma?

People who do wake up from a coma usually come round gradually. They may be very agitated and confused to begin with. Some people will make a full recovery and be completely unaffected by the coma. Others will have disabilities caused by the damage to their brain.

Is being in a coma like dreaming?

“Being in a coma is like a magnified and intense version of our own dreams,” she said. “Everything that happens in the real world, you hear, you’re aware of, you kind of know what’s going on, but it goes through this weird filter thing in your brain.”

Can a person in coma feel pain?

People in a coma are completely unresponsive. They do not move, do not react to light or sound and cannot feel pain. Their eyes are closed. The brain responds to extreme trauma by effectively ‘shutting down’.

What does it feel like to wake up from a coma?

So no, waking up from a coma is nothing like waking up from a good sleep. Because the thoughts and dreams that go through your mind when you’re in a coma feel so abso-freaking-lutely REAL, you would swear they are actual memories. Waking up from a coma is scary. It’s confusing. It feels nothing like actual sleep.

What’s the difference between sleep and coma?

Much like “sleep” can mean anything from a blissful eight hours of rest to a terrifying, nightmare-filled catnap, “coma” is a catch-all term that can be caused by any number of things, if they become serious enough. A bad enough head injury? A coma’s a possibility.

What happens to a coma patient’s eyes?

A coma patient’s eyes are generally closed, and their breathing may be irregular. They tend to have no pain response at all, apart from certain reflex movements — but not brainstem reflexes, which more or less take a holiday. This is why a comatose person’s pupils don’t contract and dilate properly, when subjected to light.

Does a coma affect your memory?

The answer is “No.” There is a huge hole in my memory beginning about two weeks before the coma through a week after “waking up.” And waking up is in quotes because I would wake up, ask a bunch of semi-incoherent questions, fall back under, then wake up again and ask the exact same questions, in the exact same order.