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Anon gets hit by a car (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Bobmighty@lemmy.world 207 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

I was in an induced coma for a month after my accident. It was a horrific experience that traumatized me severely. Tons of nightmares I could feel. Constantly shifting from one to another without sense or reason. No consistency, no mercy, lucid but unable to make change. No escape. I feared I wasn't actually in reality when I truly woke up at first. I kept fearing another shift. I died countless horrific deaths and lost my mind in there.

In researching coma dreams and nightmares in others, I see similar themes. Not always terrible, but always shifty ridiculous dream logic. The dreaming mind is not a realm of coherency telling a long story with a super clear thread. It is an ocean of ideas, fears, thoughts and needs that crash and clang together. In a single night you can have a fragment of a dream you remember that kinda sorta makes sense, but stuck in there for extended times? Chaos reigns.

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

Not to trivialize your experience, but Deloused the the Comatorium by The Mars Volta is a true story about a guy that tried to kill himself by drinking rat poison, going into a coma, coming out of it, and realizing that the coma world was more preferable/he couldn't cope with the waking world and jumps off of a building to get back. He died.

It's an interesting album that might help? There's a lot of disconnected, out there nonsense in his dreams that they express in the songs.

I'm sure it's not nearly as intense as being in a dreaming coma, but I found music that touches upon a traumatic situation helps me sort it out.

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