"I was in a coma for two weeks, and I would not wish it upon anyone. I was in a long dream. I did realize I was asleep for a long time.
I was still able to feel and hear, which was interpreted in my dream. My hands were restrained so I would not pull out any tubes, and my dream was that I was being held in prison."
-Reddit user MaraMarieMadd
"I was in a coma for a little over a month, then half-awake for another month after that. It was like the longest, scariest dream of my life.
I was medically induced by a fentanyl drip for about a week at first, and let me tell you, fentanyl is a demon. I had wacky dreams about fighting corrupt hospital officials, so my brain knew where I was."
-Reddit user greenfingers559
"I can only compare it to when you’re little and wake up at a friend's house and don’t know where you are. I was in a coma for two months after a bad car accident.
I woke up alone in the hospital room and had no clue what happened or why I was there. For some reason, I thought I was 60 years old (I was in my twenties)." -Reddit user ThisBlowsHard11
"I was in a coma because I fell 15 meters and broke nearly all of the bones in my back. It was horrible. In my dreams, I thought I was a time traveler or some kind of god.
I thought I was shot by the police and other shit. I still have flashbacks to this day, and it is not fun." -Reddit user AlexWinchesterSohn
"I was in a medically induced coma for about a week. The coma itself is not much to talk about. There is just a gap in your memory, even from before it happened. I don't even remember the accident that brought me there in the first place.
Waking up is a much different story, though. Since I was fully dosed with painkillers and sedatives, I was basically high as a kite. And since the trauma I suffered was very serious, my brain constructed very stressful and vivid nightmares that I remember to this day." -Reddit user spiderMechanic
"My wife was in a coma for about a month. I brought the kids to see her later after prepping them. Despite the initial shock at seeing her with a ventilator, they were vocally loving, hugged her, held her hand, etc. We sat in the room and talked.
At one point, I asked the kids what their favorite vacation was. They both agreed it was the road trip we took from Vegas down to Arizona. My wife heard it all but in a hallucinatory way." -Reddit user Coogcheese
"My daughter was in a medically induced coma for two days from a drowning accident. She made a full recovery, but the things she told us freaked me out.
She told us she played mermaid tea party with my dead parents, then described how she was denied entering the gates of heaven because 'St. Patrick' told her it wasn’t time yet." -Reddit user Dfiggsmeister
"I was in a six-day coma after a brain hemorrhage. I recall nothing during the coma.
I have a fuzzy understanding of my first week or two after waking up, having pieced it together by the stories I was told. Memories of the day(s?) leading up to it were temporarily wiped out, though they have since returned." -Reddit user TheImmortalJoel
"My dad has described his two-month coma after his car accident. He said he could hear bits and pieces of what was happening around him, but it was like a dream that he couldn’t wake up from.
When my two siblings and I would come in and talk to him, his heart rate would go down. When his friends had come to sit with him and watch a football game, the nurses made them turn it off because his team started losing, and his heart rate blew up." -Reddit user PublixHouseCat
"When I was 12, I had meningitis, but it was misdiagnosed as stomach flu. I was taken to the hospital last minute, and the last memory I had was 'falling asleep while watching the emergency news on TV.
I had no awareness of time at all. It's like going to sleep and just waking up what feels like a second later, but it's actually morning already." -Reddit user zxminne
"I was in a coma for three days following a serious cycling accident, medically induced. I woke up with zero recollection of why I was there or what was said while I was out.
It is easily the scariest situation I've found myself in, but I can't say I remember it. I woke up to my mom and dad in the hospital with me, and my body in traction of some sort, and that was way scarier to me." -Reddit user (deleted)
"I had a seizure and was in a medically induced coma for 3 days when I was 17. To be honest, I don’t remember anything. I remember fading in and out of the anesthesia, trying to pull my breathing tube out, and my hands were restrained to the bed so I couldn’t. When I woke up and was coherent, I couldn’t recall anything from actually being in a coma.
They had even moved me to a hospital over 100 miles away. It was really just nothing but black. No dreams, no lights, no voices, just nothing." -Reddit user chazzybeats
"I was in a coma for three days after an emergency C-Section (thanks eclampsia). They actually lost me for a couple of minutes after they delivered my twin boys.
I remember hearing the sound of my dad crying close by. I could hear people talking around me, but any time I would try to focus on what I thought I was seeing, it was like looking in a kaleidoscope." -Reddit user (deleted)
"I was in a coma for three days. Unlike most people, I definitely knew time was passing but didn't know I was in a coma. I kept having weird hallucinations about running a restaurant with my brother, and I kept getting confused and wondering where I was and why I wasn’t managing the restaurant.
I’ve never worked at a restaurant, and I’m not sure why my brother was involved. Life didn’t feel real for a few months following waking up." -Reddit user (deleted)
"I remember what put me in a coma, then I remember being unconscious but hearing my parents, hallucinations; and then nothing for 5 weeks.
My next memory is at home and my doctor visiting me."
-Reddit user Fiasko21