Do people in comas feel the passage of time? Why or why not?
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You’re unconscious and don’t respond to any stimuli so I don’t think they’d feel the passage of time. I haven’t been in a coma tho 😬
No they don’t.
A coma is defined as a prolonged period of far deeper than usual unconsciousness. Most of the brain is simply turned off.
This includes the part of the brain that keeps track of time. You can’t keep proper track of time if your watch isn’t working.
There are interesting stories about experiences of coma patients being able to see and hear everything in their room while they were comatose, and remembering things that they could not otherwise know, when they woke up.
There’s this one about a woman who was in a coma for months, her mother played a Celine Dion album for her on repeat, because she thought her daughter liked it. The daughter woke up, and said “if I ever hear that Celine Dion album again I will kill you.” [Source](https://www.owenlab.uwo.ca/pdf/Times—Review.pdf)
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