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I wonder how different the experience of waking up from induced hypothermia is from, say, a coma. From my understanding, in a coma there is sometimes brain acti
by nefitty 7y ago
I wonder how different the experience of waking up from induced hypothermia is from, say, a coma. From my understanding, in a coma there is sometimes brain activity, up to the point that some people end up with Locked-in syndrome(LIS).
An example is Martin Pistorius, who has vivid memories of his time in his pseudocoma. That means his sense of self was intact throughout that experience. That colors what it feels like to "escape" from the coma. In dreams, we usually have a sense of self, i.e. we "come back" to reality.
There are also people who experience the subjective Near-death experience (NDE) which sometimes involves bodily detachment, etc. but presumably this NDE feels like it's occurring to that person's self. When under anaesthesia, waking up from it is more like waking up from a really deep nap, and from my experience, is easy to integrate.
Now, when waking up from induced hypothermia, does the brain slowly kick on different modules? Does the brain snap back to the last thought the person was having? To use a programming analogy, does the brain save state in a physical way? Or is it like restarting a computer fresh?
This is such a cool technique. Thank you for sharing info on it.
- pmoriarty 7y ago"An example is Martin Pistorius, who has vivid memories of his time in his pseudocoma. That means his sense of self was intact throughout that experience." Or they could just be false memories.
- thrownblown 7y ago6 years of false memories? (edit: corrected the duration of his LIS)
- agumonkey 7y agoI remember the movie about LIS.. I couldn't bear to watch it. 6 years of it is beyond insane.
- asveikau 7y agoIf 6 years had passed with limited sensory input, and you were pretty sure you remembered all of it, how would you know if that's true? How much detail do we really remember of our own last 6 years of fully awake, conscious existence not spent in such a state? I feel like once you get to such a length of time you can't trust your own memory of it. Obviously he could know enough to say "I was conscious during some point of that time window" but measuring it would be hard.