People Who Woke Up From Comas Spill The Wildest Stories

After a nasty car crash, I was shoved into an induced coma for a whole week. Thanks to some heavy meds, my brain cooked up this wild hallucination where I thought I was in this crazy place where people’s lives were being stolen to make others younger. Weird, right? I was terrified people would use my family as fuel. And I couldn’t even talk to warn anyone because of the tubes in my throat! Thankfully, once the fog lifted, I calmed down and realized none of it was real.

Got run over by a big truck while riding my motorcycle. Both me and my girlfriend went into comas, but sadly, she didn’t make it. I was out for 8 days - no thoughts, no pain, just blackness. Then bam! I woke up in the ER in serious pain and pretty confused. Took a while to piece together what happened. Lost a leg, but hey, I’m still here, so no complaints. Huge shoutout to all the EMTs and hospital staff who made it happen!

Ran over and trucked pretty hard. They put me in an anesthetic coma for a month. The nightmares were like a horror movie marathon - being ripped apart again and again, all types of prisons, and one nightmare I swear was Robin Williams cutting into my leg while singing his movie songs. I felt them take my leg in the dream. Honestly, hearing people describe just sleeping through coma? Jealous. I don’t wish what I went through on anyone.

Some underage drunk hit me while biking home. I was out cold for 12 days, had a bunch of broken bones, and even knocked my teeth out on the handlebars. Woke up super confused and in pain, not really understanding time passed. My family was crying beside me, but I had zero clue what was going on. I couldn't speak or hear anything while out, but once awake, I kept asking, “What happened?” and stared at my limbs in casts like a total newbie to life. The doctors said I should be dead or paralyzed - I'm counting my lucky stars.

Crashing my motorcycle and snapping my femur landed me in an induced coma for 12 days. My lungs were messed up thanks to a fat embolism. The coma was super vivid - I dreamed I was a nurse at a plastic surgery clinic beneath a hotel in Bali. I really believed I’d been in Bali for a week! Everything and everyone in that dream felt as real as my actual family. Sometimes I get a little sad knowing I’ll never see those “people” again. TL;DR: Coma? Pretty fun, wouldn’t mind signing up again!

Got tossed around in a 5-rollover car accident, no seat belt, and even got rolled over by the car. I was out cold for 2.5 weeks with a mild head concussion and a ton of broken bones. I apparently woke up once but was in agonizing pain, so they had to knock me back out with meds. The weirdest memory? When they took the catheter out from my privates, I slapped the nurse. She said it’s super common. That nurse has the toughest job ever! I remember nothing from the coma or accident, besides the car jerking before the crash.

I had a burst aneurysm that caused brain swelling, so doctors put me in a medically induced coma for about a week. While out, I could hear voices but couldn’t respond - imagine screaming in an empty, dark void and no one hears you. It was totally black, drifting in and out of awareness. When familiar voices came near, I'd try to talk, but still no response. It was every bit as frustrating and lonely as you can imagine. Waking up felt like being dumped back into reality with a pounding headache and confused mind.

I slipped and hit my head while hiking about 10 years ago and was out cold for a day and a half. To me, it was like someone flipped a light switch off and on - I remember falling and then bam, waking up in a hospital bed. No blurry in-between, just total blackout, then back to full-on consciousness. Kind of like a power outage in my brain.

Fell off a 5-story building and was in a coma for two weeks. During that time, I mostly dreamed strange, morphine-fueled dreams. When I woke up, I tried to jump up like nothing happened, only to find I was strapped down, had a broken foot, and was wearing a body brace. I’d pulled out tubes and even scratched the nurses, completely confused about the mess I was in. I still don’t know how I woke up - it was a total mystery to me. And I was just 15!

I had a serious head injury and was out for a few days - doctors say about three. Waking up felt like someone flipped a switch back on. I immediately tried to jump up, still thinking I was on a ski mountain. It was like no time passed, but reality begged to differ.

My then-husband hit me unconscious with an iron. Around three weeks later, I started waking up in bits and pieces. It was bright and loud, but everything was confusing. I freaked during a dressing change until a kind nurse calmed me down. Even though I was out a lot, I was awake and aware each day. I don’t remember the coma itself, but my family told me the staff knew I was on my way back a full day before I actually started coming around.

After a nasty car accident put me out for about a week, waking up wasn't like movies at all. It was a slow, fuzzy process. I had moments where I came partway back and thought I was inside a radio station with a DJ (male nurse). I don’t remember the accident, which I was told is totally normal. Other accident patients often blank out those days. All in all, it was like a long sleep with little clue on how much time passed.

I was in a brutal accident at age 12, and doctors said 90% chance I wouldn’t survive. After a day and a half in a coma, I woke up! My family lost a lot that day, but I beat the odds. I had over 16 surgeries, lost parts of my intestines, spleen, and even a hand. I became left-handed, and here I am now, 21 years old, still kicking!

I ended up in a medically induced coma for two weeks after open-heart surgery went sideways. No bright lights, no angels, just a really long nap where I’d briefly wake up to find tubes sticking out of me and then snooze right back off.

I was in a coma for about a month thanks to a wild combo of sepsis, flesh-eating bacteria, and multiple organ failure. Most of my time was spent unconscious but in between, I had some crazy vivid dreams that still feel real. The worst? Waking up trapped inside my body, unable to speak or move even though I could hear everything around me. Scary stuff! But I made it through, just a few ugly scars as souvenirs.

After being hit by a car and broken up like a toy, I was in a coma for three weeks. When I finally woke, I was insanely thirsty - like the kind of thirst you didn’t know existed. Nightmare? They wouldn’t let me drink anything but ice chips for two days. Talk about frustrating!

I was in a coma over three weeks due to a nasty blood infection. Early on, I got pissed at my dad for not letting me see my dogs, but I don't remember any of it clearly. No bright lights, no touching memories of people talking to me (even though my wife says they never stopped). Woke up trying to walk to the bathroom all by myself (spoiler: didn't work!). Lost nearly a month of my life but learned a lot about patience and recovery.

I tried to take my own life and ended up in a coma for about three weeks. My mind was like swimming underwater, with the surface being consciousness just barely out of reach. Sometimes I could hear dim voices, but mostly it was nothing - just floating. Gradually, I got closer to the surface and flickered in and out of awareness, but I didn’t understand what waking up meant or why I should care. When I finally made it, my throat hurt like crazy and I had to relearn moving. It was a weird, underwater journey back to reality.