What Happens in the Brain During a Coma?
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2018
- Patients in comas might look like they’re sleeping, but there are pretty fascinating things happening inside of their heads.
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I was in a coma for three weeks. My eyes opened first but I wasn't responding to stimuli. I was in a vegetative state then, but when I first responded was after my mom begged and begged to say something I mouthed "I love you" to her
Tate H - How cute :)
Do u remember anything at all in coma? Like when u woke up, did u think you were simply dreaming, or u felt u were just asleep for one night and woke up half awake all of a sudden? I need to know this lol
No, as far as I know. Often afterwards in rehab, I'd bring up something I assumed had happened, but that was a dream. (after a night sleep, not after the coma) or vice versa. Something had happened but I played it off assuming it was a dream. However, one day I suddenly remembered an old old kids book I loved growing up. I brought that up to my mom and she told me she read that book when I was in the coma...so possibly
Tate H wow that is crazy. Almost like that moment was actually stored in ur memory. Very interesting, thanks for the reply 😊
La Flaka Acabando You're welcome 😉 I would've wanted the same. The biggest reason for why I don't remember waking up wasn't just for the coma. I lost a year or so's worth of memory, the further back you look the less severe the memory loss. The reason for this was a severe level of traumatic brain damage, (severe TBI), not a coma, therefore much was lost. We started all the way back to the ABCs/123s in rehab, for everyone's memory loss is different. I hadn't of forgotten that far back thank God but there was no telling. Further include names (mine, mom's, brothers') or age of myself or them were asked. From the very beginning
My wife was in a medically induced coma for about a month following a car crash to give her brain the rest it needed, reduce the blood flow and take the ICP down. I don't know the units, but I was told a general anaesthetic would read about 50 on the scale. The barbituate coma she was in made her read 5-10. Quite amazing really. Once the drugs eased off and she began to wake up there was a long road ahead of rehab etc, but shes made a fantastic recovery given the severity of her injury and even returned to her job. I'll always be thankful to the staff at The Walton Centre for not only saving her life with the surgeries, but also the care they gave her in the ICU and rehab.
apedley So glad you guys had a happy ending after something that scary. I know, its not really "happy" per say but I just couldn't imagine going through what you did watching your spouse go through that. Or what she had to endure. I'm happy for both of you!
Thank you for your kind thoughts. So nice to have a pleasant reply on youtube comments!
I'm so happy for you guys!
Woah. ICP is a nightmare. Good thing we have methods to keep those weirdo juggalo clowns away.
It's installing Windows Updates, obviously
Duh...
Didnt know Des was watching Scishow, hi!
goddamned windows always restarts in the worst moments
I feel so bad for finding this joke funny.🥲
Ha that's it, bro can you knock total about this, by comparing with computer
So the computer is on, all the parts work, but something bumped the OS into the recycling bin
Maybe not even the whole OS, maybe just System32 or something :P
More like being stuck in sleep mode
Michael Hough I would think more like being stuck in the BiOS. The computer is having trouble booting up to normal function, but if you fix it it will likely be able to boot up entirely again.
So your saying the recycling bin recycling binned itself..? ._.
I think in most cases the hardware isn't functioning properly. When it does, the software starts up on its own. Otherwise, that sounds like a psychological condition (catatonia).
When I came out of the coma I was in, the first thing I saw before I opened my eyes was my grandpa pointing his finger at me and said, "We're not ready for you yet"... My grandpa passed away 25 years ago and I came out of my coma 13 years ago. I don't think that was a dream, but my doctor told me I never flat lined once.
Wow Glory be to God!
It was not your time yet. God is not done with you. Keep sharing your story with the world 🙏🏼🤍.
@@yesseniayoung9453i couldnt agree more
I totally believe you because I too was in a coma for two weeks and was sent back by my ancestors standing like choristers and gesturing that I go back, but I sort of fell into deeper unconsciousness followed by series of sleep that seemed eternal because I yearned for it and afterwards wanted even more…
My late Papa was the most vehement about me going back, so I told him how sick, tired and weak I felt; but he asked me to practice waking up everyday.
It was a tiring exercise but I persevered even though I always fell back into deeper sleep…
After that experience in the coma realm, I started practicing to wake up every morning when the blue clock my late Papa pointed at struck 7:30 am in that paranormal realm…
One day whilst practicing to wake up as I always did, practicing pulling myself up on the right side, I was able to lift myself up from my coma realm state and found myself in the same noisy world once again…
I would really like to be part of an INternational Coma Research Program…
Being in a coma is seriously the hardest thing I've ever done. And I've had cancer. And moved 2,000 miles in middle school. And been hit by a car as a pedestrian (twice, separate occasions). So I feel like I know about hard things. And also I have a really insane life.
Thank you for everything you said, it's really true. You explained what it feels like to not be all there with internal and external awareness.
And I have a few memories of the first month of coma, but I have much more concrete memories of the second month, when I was starting to come out.
Everything you said was a good explanation for what actually happened between my ears at that time, so thank you!
I'm not sure what u mean by hard? While in a coma for just 4 days I felt like it was hard to survive! Yet had a vivid meeting with God that changed my life forever and for the better!
@@oldfogey3272I’m pretty sure the fact that you can hear things & people you love around you but can’t respond is pretty damn hard & terrifying.
I was in a coma for 3 months and dreamt for MOST of it. It was like YEARS of dreams. Some good, some peaceful and eye opening, and other horrifying. I somehow knew I was in the hospital and had a couple dreams being there.
How long did it feel like?
Really brilliant video. When I worked with patients with brain injuries we had a lot of people in comas. Our rehabilitation plans and interventions were not catered around them being 'asleep', but as them being a patients going though a stage of potential recovery. Thanks for this
I'm Sure You Don't Hear This Enough, Thank You For What You Do.
I was in a coma for 2 weeks after a serious brain injury, and I did in fact, dream. It was awful. I had horrible night mares but I couldn’t wake up
how are you doing now? And how were doing weeks and months after the coma?
I’m doing well, thanks for asking! I’m very fortunate to have the cognitive function that I do. After the coma, I had some trouble with motor skills and pain but I had no issues with memory!
@@tatesands glad to hear! and your motor skills and pain have improved?
They have! :)
I was hit by a car and in coma for almost a month. I had nightmares too. I got reality and dreams confused.
People in induced comas (under general anaesthesic for long periods) can sometimes remember things, but get things a bit mixed up.
A patient I've come across 'remembered' being tortured by a vampire when he was in an induced coma. It was actually the physiotherapist contorting his body and performing chest physio. It's kind of terrifying when you think about it. People who have been in induced comas in ICUs commonly suffer from PTSD, from the weird, half-memories and experiences they have when they're not fully aware and awake.
Louise Wray Well, I’ve heard that people under general anesthesia wake up during surgery in some cases.
Plot twist: When the physiotherapist quit his job and moved away, they found large amounts of suncream and empty blood pouches in his locker.
I'm going to write a book about my experiences while in a COMA.
For sure I got PTSD from that ride in Crazyland...!
My boyfriend experienced this type of panic while in a coma. 🥺 It's interesting and scary to listen to.
I was hit by a truck in March of this year and put into a coma for quite some time. I was in really bad shape so it could've been a combination of all the drugs they had me on mixed with the brain injury but I was essentially in another world. I went from being in a low end family run hospital that turned into a drug dealing night club at night to an entire city ran by BP oil where all the citizens had to rob and murder each other for essential goods and food. At one point I was inside of an entire Star Wars film that I tried to explain to my family but they had no idea what I was talking about. The film was basically a huge add for products. At one point Darth Vader was fighting a female character around a giant bottle of Wet n Wild nail polish and proceeded to try and cut through it with a light saber to show how tough it was. Those are just a few of the things I remember. I was only in a coma for a couple weeks maybe but it felt like those hallucinations we're going on for years.
"All of this means that coma patients don't usually dream, _either."_
Shoot. That has to be a _serious drag._
Lazy Perfectionist my mom passed away from a comma and she was unconscious the whole time I wish she could have had dreams at least so she could have been peaceful
@@kaylarodgers650 I'm so sorry to hear about your loss... being in a state of sleep however may have been just as peaceful as dreaming as there's no awareness or worries, so I think she would have been peaceful
@@krismai8533 thank you for that. my dad passed away a little over a year ago. he was in a prolonged seizure that he did not get out of (status epilepticus). he was in a coma when he passed, and it always broke me that he didnt get his wish; to pass away peacefully and quickly in his sleep. your comment now makes me rethink that, atleast about the peaceful part. 💗
It's a double egde blade
Imagine it's a coma + nightmare
Even more yet reality is subjective. Our brains tell us what reality is. And a brain really doesn't know the difference between an awake state and normal sleep state in dreams. So a dream is literally our reality when we are in them. But when the brain is under this condition and in a comatose state, there is no, at least for us, reality.
For those that are lucky enough to have never needed a general anesthesia yet, here's my (not entirely accurate) description of the experience I had on the procedure:
A really chilly liquid (the anesthetic substance) slowly rises up inside you from one of your hands, and once it reaches your shoulder, you suddenly feel your eyelids getting real heavy real fast as a result of said liquid.
You can struggle to see how long you can keep them open, but at some point, the liquid (whether maybe from its chillyness, its compounds, or both) will create a sensation so overwhelming that you can't help but close your eyes. Give it about 2 seconds afterwards and the chilly sensation will dwindle away, and then, for what feels like not even a second, you experience absolute nothingness...
...And then you suddenly wake up -- just like that, your head feeling particularly fuzzy and your body equal parts refreshed and gimped (and possibly painful if a surgery was had in the meantime). You may also feel very nauseated at this point for some reason (or so I've been told from my sister's experience). And while you're forced to wait somewhere between 30 mins and 1 hour to "recover" from the procedure, you realize that what felt like 5 seconds at most was actually about 3 or 4 hours long.
Again, it's not an entirely accurate description of what happened -- it's a real "blink it or miss it" moment, and the fuzzy head afterwards doesn't help remembering it -- and I fortunately never went through the more awkward parts of it (nauseating aftereffects, inherent resistance to the substance making you wake up mid-operation, etc), but having had 2 surgeries in the space of a month, I can at the very least say they were simply the most fascinating parts of my hospitalization.
wow cool! so u had no dreams?
The Blitz
I guess? Not much seemed to happen -- if anything happened at all -- between the moment I slept and the moment I woke up, so yeah.
I can concur with Sergeant Brown, no dreams when I was put under. It's like you close your eyes and then you open them and it feels like no time has passed.
I've been under three times and in all cases I lost memory as soon as they injected the pre-op drugs in the prep room, which gave me no usual feelings at all. Only the latest time did I find out that I was responsive beyond that dose. I couldn't tell you what an OR looks like (except for what I've seen on TV). Also I have no memory of breathing tubes, going in or coming out. It felt like seconds of total blackness and I was waking up already, though extremely groggy and with the worst dry throat imaginable.
my experience was mostly uninteresting (i got put under when i had my wisdom teeth pulled). they put the IV in my arm and i was just waiting for... anything(i was really hoping to see how long i could fight the drugs) but instead i was just out almost instantly, no noticeable sensations just out cold after a few seconds. although i had disorientation, poor coordination and double vision for the first 5 minutes after i woke up. honestly it was a very disappointing experience but at least the pain was very tolerable with light medication.
The same thing that happens to a sentence during a comma... there's a slight pause.
New Message, you've done good kid, you've done good!
Justin O'Brien, thank you for introducing "Pun Fu" into my life....it's beautiful
This was an amazing video SciShow Psych. More please.
I was in a coma in October 2016. The only thing I remember was slipping into the coma. I was on mechanical life support and had a nasogastric feeding tube and catheter. I obviously don’t remember the life support, but I remember the trauma of being intubated and catheterised. I was in and out of consciousness before I fell into a comatose state for 2-3 weeks. I had no idea why or how I was in the ICU so I completely freaked out. Screaming. Lots of screaming. And I was told there was blood EVERYWHERE. I was also told I kept fighting the hospital staff and that, although I had no idea what was going on, I clearly didn’t want it. There is no dreaming. Nothing. I couldn’t hear anything. It is like turning the television off. The coma in and of itself isn’t painful (but who knows since I was put on lots of pain meds). I just remember lots of screaming. 2-3 weeks later I awoke. Don’t remember anything about that. I just recall *being conscious* VERY suddenly. I had no clue I had been in the ICU for weeks. I recall hearing how long I was comatose for, and it was shocking because I could remember what I did the day of or before I became comatose like it had just happened. The ONLY thing I know and remember during the coma was that I awoke VERY briefly (about 5 seconds) and I remember looking in front of me and seeing the ENTIRE ICU and ER staff surrounding me, staring and silent in complete shock. Like... utter disbelief. Hands covering their mouths, perhaps 20-25 or even 30 doctors and nurses. I recall thinking, “This is absolutely horrifying, I don’t know what’s going on,” and I slipped right back into the coma. Next thing I know it’s weeks later and the doctor is telling me that he has absolutely no clue how I survived, that I would still die even though I had awoken, and that my organs would fail. That I would have to get a black market organ(s). He used the actual word “miracle” to describe my “recovery”. I don’t remember how this conversation with the doctor started; I just remember suddenly being conscious *while* he’s talking to me.
Great video, Brit.!
Thank you.
You 're a good speaker... Thank you.
I was hospitalized with pneumonia a couple of years ago, they brought me in the ambulance unconscious and unresponsive. I don't remember any of it and I don't remember any of the several hours I was in the E.R. However, I carried on a lucid conversation with ONE doctor which I did remember even though I was totally out of it after that. The people in the E.R. verified what I remembered saying. Really weird because we just talked about the weather and the town I live in, nothing about the fact that I was found at death's door and they were working like hell to stabilize me. It was like a temporary disconnect from reality.
I was in coma ( they say doctors putt me in one ) and you deff don't dream ( unfortunetly ). I had feeling like i died and came back to life again. It took me some time to remeber what happend and who i was completly ( i couldn't remeber some thing at first ), i was in car accident but i forgot about that and i literelly thought i was at my grandmothers funeral ( which was incredible traumiatizing for me, it seemed like the whole world didn't make sense anymore even tho i wasn't close to my grandmother ). I Saw grass on the other side eventhough there was only floor ( because funeral was outside ) i also wondered who were all these people. i was in come only 3 days i think and as i said it feels like i died and everything was so weird, but that could be due to shock of the accident. I knew something was wrong but i couldn't pin point it. My memories came back, but i still can't remeber happy ones completly, only sad and traumatizing ones. Well back then i was 9 and after the accident i couldn't walk anymore and i later found out that my sister has passed away, i loved my sister the most and it hit me really hard. After all that i had a feeling like i have died and now the new me in new world had to live somehow, i don't know why i can't remeber good memories i had with my sister only bad ones..Now i am trying to cherrish things more.
venomusdrake 288 That definitely sounds like something traumatic. I'm sorry you had to experience that all.
While I've never been in a coma, the way you explain waking up and the confusion and the overwhelming negative feelings, I can relate to. I suffer from grand mal epileptic seizures and every time I come to after one, I'm terrified beyond words and can't remember anything. Its the worst thing I've ever felt. Although, it sounds like your experience is at a much more intense degree. I hope the best for you here on out and hope you can regain whatever positive memories you can, bit by bit.
Kari Thank you so much. What happens to you is terrible, i can't imagine how confussed you must feel. Why do you have that condition ? I really hope you get better!
Gurl your hair is lookn' fab, and that shirt be hella sick. Keep it up!
Yeah I was in a coma for about three months, and I don’t remember specifics at all, but I remember “watching” the Olympics in Rio, although I only formed like half a thought the entire time the Olympics were going on. Later on in the coma, someone read me Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and I thought I was dreaming of Hogwarts for a couple weeks. I don’t think it’s fair to say NO processing of anything, there’s still processing, but it takes like at least an hour to produce any legitimate thoughts. So it’s like going from 90 mph to 1.5 mph in “thought speed.” Or at least that’s what it feels like.
This is so fascinating
3:58 _"Anesthesia can even be used to study real comas without putting someone in serious danger."_
Cool!
Good video.
You have the best shirts. Also this is your best hairstyle thus far! Love it!
That was a very good video, well done! :)
I was in a coma for 20 days. A friend came to visit me about 10 days into my journey, and told me about a release from a band that I'm into. I have no memory of the conversation, but one of the first things I asked him was how the new album was.
I was in a coma due to sepsis after colon cancer surgery. I tried to communicate but couldn't and I had vivid, lucid dreams. And I remember having one and then waking up from my coma!
TY for the summary update on this topic. I graduated medical school in 1991. It shows we have not gained a huge understanding but there has been minor progress.
Well, this is very interesting, do more of this!
This is just a theory, but i think coma is a way for the brain to heal itself from an major injury. During coma the brain sets itself in low activity to recover faster. When the person wakes up the brain has healed. But in many cases the damage is so severe that the brain can't heal itself and the person never wakes up.
Anders Pernefalk I don't think your too far off. That's one of the reasons that Drs induce comas medically. To give the brain/body a chance to heal.
But they are in a weird dream like state that can feel very scary to the coma patient.
Very accurate, I was a stage 1 tbi, I had a serious injury due to someone causing me to wreck my bike
I was in a coma (not induced) for a month and a half. I dreamt THE WHOLE TIME. I felt like i was trapped in my dreams at times. I would dream that i woke up and realize i was still dreaming and wake up in coma again and again. It felt like i was in the center of a onion and peeling strips away, bit by bit....the lighting in the dreams got brighter and brighter until i woke up. I couldnt forget the dreams i had if i wanted to. Some were scary, some were funny...etc.
May I ask whether it was a continuous experience or with some kind of a pause(like gaps of uncertainty) maybe?
That sounds terrifying
Nice video, but it only kind of explained what a coma is and sadly it didn't provide any insights to the question on the title. What *does* happen in the brain during a coma? Which parts show activity and what are they responsible for? Is the brain trying to actively heal itself in a way that it cannot when not in a coma or is the coma simply a result of not being able to function properly?
Pants-off Dance-off You'd need hours to really understand that because there are so many types. You've got great questions. My advice is to get an anatomy & physiology book, a nursing book and start reading about neuro. That's my specialty. I've spent half my life studying so I could explain certain conditions to patients and their families. I still study. Medicine is always changing. Once you learn the basics, look at sights such as medscape and others, (not web md), to find out the latest info. Hope that helps!
Pants-off Dance-off
I was kinda wandering same thing, l curious to know what type of repair cycles that go on. I was put into a medically induced coma for 10 days and put on some expensive machine that breathed for me so my lungs could heal from a viral pneumonia.
Your face is beautiful. The information is really informative. Thank you!
I was seeking answers thanks for the information
What you define as aware around 1.20 is actually the definition of being able to react, i understand awareness as being able to perceive what is happening around you
I've been in a medically induced coma and I remember hearing ALOT. I also have visual memories that I should not. Not just coming out. Thru the whole thing. My brain and body fought the propofol.
I spent 28 days in a induced coma from pneumonia and ARDS in late 2018 in NZ. I remember 12 distinct and vivid fantastic dreams, I dream a lot so not that surprising for me. One related to waiting in a house to be taken into some mountains my monks. I sure this related to when my BO dropped to 48% for a period and it was me being ready to go/die. The waiting just went on and on, I wasn't scared just inpatient. Later when the sedation must have been lower I flipped the bird to a visiting friend who was mocking me to a nurse nearby :-). I remember a lot, good and bad but still miss that lucid dream world.
Great video, btw that shirt rocks!!!!!
"Darkness, imprisoning me, all that I see, absolute horror. I cannot live, I cannot die, trapped in my self, body my holding cell."
This is what it's like.
I was in an induced coma for a couple of weeks in October 2021. I had Covid Pneumonia. Maybe every person, situation is different. What I can tell you about my experience is that I was dreaming very vivid dreams the whole time. I knew something was wrong in my dreams because I could never move my arms in my dreams, mainly because they had me restrained to the bed. Most of my dreams were nightmares though. It was horrible.
as someone who was comatose for three weeks i can confirm you DO dream. I'm not sure if it was all throught it or maybe just by the end of it. but what i do remember of those dreams is very vivid. i also have some sort of "memory" of a void, a sort of empty thing, no senses, no vision, no emotions or thoughts not even blackness?
I love this video for many reasons. One of them is that it completely disproves those stupid "What if Character was in a coma the WHOLE time??"
where do i go to volunteer for one of those coma studies? just knock me out for a few months, it's cool.
After two years. U will wake up to terrible muscle atrophy and severe deterioration of ur basic motor skills. Coma is not fun!
OK, so what about in a medically induced coma?
Is it supposed to be the same, because I was in one for 46 days and I DID dream, a LOT!
I was in a coma for months resulting from a TBI. I couldn't tell you much about the whole ordeal though, because another side effect was pure retrograde amnesia.
GREAT SCOTT...I like that shirt.
My friend is in a coma right now.. I hope he recovers.. it's not right, he left the state to help his mom, it shouldn't be the other way around.
How is your friend now
He died last year I still think about him once a day, he was loyal always had my back and gave me advice. It's hard to find good true friends nowadays. But his memory will never die thru his advice and martial arts teachings I can pass it on to others to improve their way of life.
an episode on induced comas would be interesting. I had vivid dreams while in an induced coma.
Good article. Great shirt! Source / link ?
I could hear most everything when I was on life support, and during one of my surgeries. But, I'm an experienced ICU nurse and knew what was happening. I knew what day it was, who my nurse was, and what Dr was in my room. Concious sedation doesn't always work. Maybe they should study the ones that work in that field if they want a more in depth study.
Celeste I had similar. Your not alone. It’s.. no words
nice t-shirt!
Can you do a video on minimally conscious state?
Oh, what's that? It sounds fascinating!
1:03 These definitions made me curious about something. My mom has seizures, and afterwards, she regains awareness of what's going on around her, able to hear, smell, and - as often causes problems when medical staff are trying to put in an IV, thinking that she's still out - feel, but she has no control over her body for up to a minute. She understands the conversation, and feels the needles, but has no way of letting anyone know that she's "back."
Is she conscious? Is she in an altered state of consciousness? How would this be classified, other than terrifying/annoying?
I think that would probably be closest to locked-in-syndrome? Since she's aware but not in control. I'm not a neurologist though, so take my words with plenty of salt.
has anyone ever tried to administer psychedelics in case a patient won't wake from a comatose state?
I mean its proven to rewire the dmn and the tpn, among pretty much all other parts of the brain.
Research into psychedelics that's beginning again recently is fascinating! We'd love to see more used in scenarios like these! We're going to look up if anything has been done and get back to you!
Didn't find anything on that short, completely not exhaustive search - but did come across an interesting article by newscientist if you're interested: www.newscientist.com/article/2144520-psychedelic-medicine-the-potential-the-people-the-politics/
My experience with general anesthesia was like, i got into the operating table, they got my vein, and they put a mask on me and said to give 3 deep breaths, idk if was a gas thing or they injected the anesthetic while i was focused on the mask, but my first deep breath i started to feel like my sight getting blurred, and my hearing getting some really cool reverbs, I remember having my second deep breath and the last thing I remember i was in the recovery room, with my mouth really dry, and a blacked out again, idk after how much time i woke up and they were transferring me to the bedroom of the hospital and thats when i started to get like consistent memories.
I was in a coma. There was no such thing as TIME. It was a black screen, no dreams for 1 night, turned out to be 14 days I woke up and couldn't breathe like a new born baby.
I remember the experience of blacking out during some blood work. I wonder how similar and different that is to being in a coma or during sleep.
I remember hearing a story of someone who was in a coma but he could hear everything that went on around him perfectly fine he basically just couldn't move any part of his body and he told people things that proved that he heard them talking what's up with that
I have the same shirt! loot crate is amazing
That last statement can be general for legal drug use for hallucinative properties as well
I could hear my wife and kids, family and friends talking to me and sometimes they would be IN THE DREAMS WITH ME. Coma dreams are VERY vivid. I could hear the doctors talking to me, asking me questions.....
Love the shirt!
Where can I order one??
I want that shirt so badly...anyone have a link?
Induced coma patient here:
I could hear & identify voices.
I could compute what was going on around me, but my visuals were darker. It was like being in the upside down (iykyk). I even knew there were things like a bear on my bed.
My brain wasn’t restful. It was stressed & busy. I lived a whole life. I dreamt 1000% & a majority of cons patients dream of being on a boat. I was also on a boat at one point.
I DID move in my coma - I was fighting hard in my dreams &, as a result, my legs were moving
Does that mean patients who had NDE didnt dream while they were dying ? it could mean that there is a chance we have souls that can leave our bodies and these souls makes the essence of us.
From what I have heard some patients in that state traveled to places they have never been to when they were alive, within their imagination that place is perfectly accurate so they say.Coma should be closest to dying.If brain cant have the energy required for it to function then that means it shouldnt be able to imagine with such precision.What do you think?
Some scientists think the soul can not exist because there are no particles to go anywhere, but I think the soul is a thing of energy, or something else beyond observable science entirely.
I went into coma for 4 hours after hitting my head at age 7. It was like dreamless sleep. All black. Once you wake up its like you have no memory of what caused it and you have no sense of time either. Also those 4 hours felt like 1 second for some reason. Like a blink.
You should do an episode about Ambien and comas. Ambien has been used to bring people out of comas. It was discovered accidentally. It’s very fascinating
Following surgery I went into an unexpected coma for 41/2 days! I vividly remember meeting God! While remembering nothing about the outside world! And I remember gradually awakening! I did have to learn to rewalk though! The coma changed my entire life for the better! I went from a nervous worrier to a very peaceful personality! I recommend the experience!
That's four and one half days not 41 days!
If you don't mind me asking, what happened for you to get a coma?
@@baudeliazamora99 I have arrested hydrocephalus! Occassional bouts of excessive brain fluid! I had to wait mths for surgery and didnt want anymore date postponements! Sharp barometric changes can cause my hydrocephalus! The surgery morning I got the hydrocephalus, didnt tell them! Thinking they knew anesthetic might be problematic for me and they could handle it! Wrong! Guess they weren't expecting it didnt monitor for it? So following surgery woke up for about a half hr then coma followed! I'll never do that again I'll postpone should the problem arise the day of surgery!
@@baudeliazamora99 and the coma only lasted for 4 and one half days not 41!
I was in a coma for 8 days, in Bradenton, Florida, and signed my name to hire a lawyer!
Well, no, I didn't...but the Manatee County Sheriff Dept. didn't see a problem with Kevin Morris forging my signature to hire himself, because I was in a coma, and refused to prosecute him.
Is this the same for medicinal coma? Like diprivan and propofol?
Not being able to respond to what's going on around you is terrifying! 😶
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I lived a whole other life in. My coma for 2 weeks and it was nothing like a dream its more like memories of my past, I remember it all like it. Was yesterday
Spent a week in acoma, after waking up it took some time for me to be able to talk correctly and even use my memory better,.... I'm still effected by it... I have lost hearing in my tube ear and the have a large loss of taste, but I am so happy I survived a stage 1 TBI
Right ear*
I sometime wake up at night feeling like a beer: cold and damp.
Sounds like you're in menopause.
First time I've seen this host. I like her. Talks a little fast, but that's true for all SciShow hosts.
3:32 (like what my face looks like) lol had me rolling 😆 🤣
This feels like the closest thing to death. Alone and unaware a chunk of life taken without you knowing
What about that guy who was in a coma for years and after waking up said he remembered the nurses played Barney the Dimosaur in his room every day and how much he hated it? He seemed to process that perfectly fine whime comatose.
A girl that remembered her coma described it as dreaming. She said she'd hear people's voices outside. She also said her brain would make up stories if her body position was changed like if they tilted the bed hanging her upside down she would dream her feet were tangled in a hammock hanging upside down.
I was in a coma for a few days due to sepsis. I didn't respond to any stimulus ( pain, sound, light). The only thing I remember is a really foggy memory of someone putting a red blanket on me.
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My friend was shot in the face, he said a coma was like feeling searing hot pain, hearing everyone, but seeing black or images the brain conjures up- all the while unable to reach them. Like you are suffering and screaming for help-trapped.
@@Ninja_Gaiden I’m so sorry you went through that. Worst isekai ever
I was in a coma for 4 weeks after having a siezure I don't remember anything apart from my dreams, I made up a whole new life in my dreams I was so confused when I woke up. I asked my wife who she was married to now and how many kids did she have.
I once smoked myself into a weed coma. It was exactly how you describe it.
When i was a kid, i open my moms eyes using my hands.
Claire WINELAND did a great video on this :) she used to post videos via the clairity project but she has a new channel where her videos aren’t being extorted for money by people who won’t work with her :)
You said Coma is a lot more like General Anesthesia, and we cannot dream in a coma. But i once dreamt in General Anesthesia. Around 10 Months before i had a fracture in which both of my wrist bones broke apart. For gge manipulation process they put me under general anesthesia(they had to do it 2 times ).. It was the second anesthesia where i dreamt. I dreamt of my family and friends around playing with me(i'm not adult,a teen). Some time later woke up and saw people pushing the stretcher on which i was lying to another room after success..
As a Coma patient I can’t tell you what happens to your body when you go into a coma but I can tell you what happens to inside your mind I had this vague feeling that I was moving upward and then I was in heaven and I met this man who I can understand was god then I went down to hell and the images I saw were severely traumatic for me and I was only 13 I could barely understand what I was seeing let alone what was happening to me and I ended up waking up and seeing my family there and I just burst into tears because I was so scared and I eventually got better and ended up coming back home but everything was different
So, in relation to brain wave types, ie Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta and Gamma, where would coma / general anesthesia rank?
love that haircut
Me too. I’m wondering what it’s called so I can get it too.
Kind of distracting wasn’t it?
You did not mention a medically induced coma and whether and how that is different from a coma and from being under anesthesia.
I didn't look this up, I just clicked it by accident and now I lm watching it bc I'm boarded...XD
What about a medically induced coma? Is that the same as general anesthesia??
But, I was always taught that comas are an important part of sentence structure...
Buts are an important part of human anatomy, I was always taught.
You kicked some buts there!
Hey not that coma dude
Ha ha xD
Master Therion That's kinda messed up, but it's funny
I’m excited
preClassic AND I JUST CAN'T HIDE IT
I'm sorry,I'll leave
Nikola Stankovic aren't you a ball of sunshine?
Dante-1321 he's a rainbow on a stormy day
Anesthesia doesn’t work well for me. I have woken up twice during surgery. And it HURT!
I was in a induced coma for 9 days a few months ago. It is nothing like general anesthetic or a deep sleep. Only when the tubes are taken out and you are somewhat conscious do you start hearing anything. Due to the Ketamine you hallucinate to every sound you hear. The hallucinations last for quite a while (over a week for me). The dreams are also lucid.
Not related to anything but I loved the DeLorean shirt on a science channel.