Celebrating Coma Day: 5 Explorations of Covert Awareness

Last updated on: August 31, 2017 at 9:52 pm by Stephanie Savage

Dream a Little Coma-Dream of Me

Celebrating Coma Day -- the anniversary of my awakening -- by exploring my journey and the researchers who allow the covertly aware to speak for themselves.

I had only heard of trachs spoken about in medical dramas, yet I knew I had one. I didn’t know that I was in a coma, yet many of my rotating roster of serial coma-dreams involved a hospital setting.

I have not yet written about my coma-dream about the adorable, hair-bowed, pre-adolescent out of a Shirley Temple film who liked to doctor me like a play doll. When I awoke, my mom told me that Esperanza – my roommate’s daughter — was a typical self-involved teenager who spent her visiting time engrossed in Disney tween shows.

While Juan Torres was at least intermittently fully aware, reality filtered hazily into the dream-world created by my slowly awakening mind.