Has anyone ever received hypnosis to experience what they felt while been under deep sedation in ICU.

[curiousnix]

Many people choose not to want to remember but if you went through a life-changing experience and actually cannot remember what exactly you went through then it is quite frustrating. Other people went through the trauma but you almost go unscathed emotionally. Is it possible to feel what happened during that time even though you were under deep sedation?

[Offcut]

I had what I called "A second life" Were my time in ICU/Coma were so mixed up I was not sure what was real or not. I asked for my notes and was given the opportunity to talk to the ICU sister of one of the hospitals I was in. I kept having times I thought I was in China/Korea and it was at that time they had oriental nurses on the ICU ward. I also had a a time I was in an airport lounge and could not get out of a chair but a man all in blue with a blue hat was defecting with me and all of a sudden I was out the chair and on a plane and that would go with the the surgeon in his blues attaching me to the Oscillator the noise is intense my wife told me. I had a second drain put in and they nicked a blood vessel. I had this image of the doctors face as I said after spitting up blood "That's not good?" I had 6 units of blood. After I was near to leaving ICU I saw this doctor and asked "if he did my second drain" and he asked "who told me?" I said !I remember your face! He just said "Really? Sorry I have to go!" A lot of the places I saw were from my childhood jaunts. I have still a few things I cannot answer and I do not think that hypnosis would bring them back as I was in a chemical wonderland of nonsense!

[vianne]

I've often wondered this, curiousnix, I would love to explore the possibilty as there are things that my family have told me about that I don't remember but they say I seemed very lucid and looked like I knew exactly what I was saying. Like offcut I have many memories that I'm still not sure about, whether they were real or not. I know now that some of the more horrific ones weren't real but I'm still left wondering about some of the other more mundane ones. There was also the time just before I went into the ICU that I do remember, talking to the doctors, taking my rings off and giving them to my husband to give to our daughters in case I didn't make it, but there were further things that they told me that happened after that I can't remember and I really want to. Its an interesting idea although I imagine it would be very scarey!

[Pandora8]

I have wondered about this as well as some questions remain in my mind about some events that happened to me while i ICU..particularly the most traumatizing ones . I was able to find explanations for most things that happened to me & where my confusion came from as my Husband had been keeping a detailed diary of events but some remain unclear & I'm tempted to give Hypnosis a try ;The only thing worrying me is that it may be quite difficult to have some traumatizing memories brought back now that i am well and sane .

[vianne]

I know what you mean Pandora8, I've often wondered if it would be wise or to leave well alone but I can't help feeling that its something I want to clear up, put a closure on if you like. As its been three and a half years since I was in hospital I feel strong enough to cope with it now I think but I don't know if I would have been able to do it if it was more recent, say under a year. May be its my family's reluctance to talk about it now, they were fine immediately after I came out of hospital but a few weeks down the line and it wasn't spoken about much at all. I feel now that if I bring it up I am causing them pain as really it was worse for them and I don't want to hurt them.

[eddie1968]

I was reading what Offcut said and would agree that bizarre thoughts happen when in induced coma. All my dreams involved being a patient in a helicopter and "nasty nurses", little did realize that when I came round did I find out that the ICU unit was close to the helipad and that must have influenced my dreams. I also remember them slitting my throar to put a tracheotomy in, no pain just a tickle and they said I was still sedated. It's all been a muddle and I have tried my best to fill in the jigsaw but have realized moving on and dealing with these strong traumatic and distressing events has been my way to survive. Two years on I am better now and a better person for being a survivor.

[AnnieBananie]

I too have wondered about hypnosis as I feel I am still not quite right after 4 years. I think maybe the unconscious experiences need to be processed on a conscious level to move past it all. It seems to me there can be no doubt as to whether you are present during the coma, just not lucid and the mind appears to create scenarios that mimic your actual surroundings and experiences (whether prompted by auditory or visual stimuli). After reading many of these personal stories there seems to be some common tangents as to what people experienced in their induced comas. The imagined scenarios seem to revolve around imposed restraint and forced physicality issues with paranoid and unsettling undertones.