Being in a Coma is Like One Long Lucid Dream
At one point, doctors had to tilt the bed in the Trendelenburg position, where the body is laid flat on the back with the feet higher than the head by 15-30 degrees.
And her mind made up a ‘story’ that she was caught upside down in a hammock.
‘So there I was upside down and swelling like a balloon at that point,’ she described.
‘In my head I was going in this weird hammock thing, and I got my foot caught in the hammock and I thought “this is so weird, why can’t I pull myself up.”
'But then logic doesn’t work so well there.’
People’s voices also affected her internal mood and dialogue.
Once she was out of a coma, she studied the experience and recalled that when her mother or father were talking in the room she would visualise a landscape with beautiful scenery and the experience would be comforting.
‘When it was people that I barely knew, it was strange and I didn’t know where I was - I was lost,’ she added.
Being in a coma made her realise how people’s experience or recall of an event is influenced by who is around them.
She said: ‘I got thinking about how that works in real life - even when were not on crazy drugs. How do people around us influence our minds and our world?
‘Basically being in a coma is a very magnified and intense version of our own dreams. There's a lot we can we about ourselves.
‘First of all it showed me I love Alaska, and who I love and care about.
'And how the world can be manipulated so easily and how our own minds can be manipulated and we can believe so much.’
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