(December 8, 2017 at 12:03 pm)Khemikal Wrote: I had the misfortune of being unconscious for roundabouts 24 hours as a younger man. This was followed, when I came to, by a very real sense of being out of body but trapped within my body. I didn't personally dream while I was out..or if I did I don't remember. I was told that was fairly common in cases of loss of consciousness due to trauma. That trauma which interrupts the function of consciousness can also interrupt dreaming and sense of self.
Personally, the latter was more disturbing than the former. I don't fear being knocked unconscious again. I do fear waking up as someone else, or as myself within someone else. Being out of it was the easiest thing in the world. I'm not going to downplay the panic I felt when my grip is going, but at the end of it y, right before I went out..there was an overwhelming feeling of calm. Then I woke up - and that's when shit got nasty.
Although the experiences were under very different circumstances, I can echo Khem's sentiments here. I was out for nearly a week, I have no recollection of anything that occurred between right before I was intubated and waking days later. I knew they were putting me under, I knew there was a real chance that I wouldn't "wake up". Before that, I was scared, very scared.
Being "gone" is easy. The loss of self for the time I was under, that took some effort to cope with.
