when in an induced coma is your subconcious mind awake my consultant said even through i didnt remember icu my body did?

[Lilly-of-the-Valley]

sepsis pnuemonia and induced coca

[Sepsur]

Has your post not come through in full? Or am I being thick?😊

[Dabofoppo]

If I remember correctly your subconscious mind never really shuts off I know that when I was unconscious most of my hallucinations could be traced back to stuff id seen or watched prior to going to hospital ( I had watched bohemian rhapsody the night before I couldn't listen to queen for about a month afterwards lol)

[FamilyHistorian]

Hi Lilly of the Valley

There are all sorts of views about this and we at ICUStepsChester were only talking about this a couple of weeks ago. Some agree with what @Dabofoppo said.

Memory is a really strange thing. I have lost memory from before admission to ICU and as a consequence I have difficulty in identifying what are real memories from the past. I can remember the hallucinations etc some could have been based on some reality if you work really hard at it but mostly there is no reason for them. I don’t have memory when I was sedated / ventilated although there were occasions when they said I spoke to them. This probably was when the drs were trying to take me off but they had to keep reseating me.

I don’t really understand what is meant about your body remembering unless it is talking about the time it takes for muscle to repair if ever it repairs properly.

[Woo2]

I remember every second of being in ICU.

I was in and out of sedation for 19 days and my sub conscious mind went bananas! I felt like I'd been in hospital for years.

I had my wisdom teeth out under general anaesthetic when I was in my

late twenties and I was aware of being sedated during the operation. I couldn't feel anything but I could see the lights and shapes of the surgeons.

In my opinion everything is recorded by the subconscious brain, even though the conscious mind may not remember. It's a bit like dreaming. Many scientists now believe that we always dream when we're asleep, but we mostly forget.

[stevet11753]

I've read that when in a (non-induced) coma any dreams you remember having occur as you are coming out of the coma. I'm not sure if it's the same for an induced coma.

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I've never remembered ICU and that was in 2012. I remember HDU and then the ward.