I dream lucidly, and this happens fairly often. Feels similar to when you realize you are dreaming and try to wake your self up. You are aware of your body, still dreaming, but can’t move yet.
thats what I thought also after seeing it on the 6:30 news today, if its real than holy fuck but I have serious doubts
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/975121/belgian-coma-man-was-just-awake-for-23-years
that’s the video from the other link… i don’t know… his eyes are closed and it looks like she’s doing all the work…
and why do that have him in a pool?? he’s in the exact same position as he was while in the chair, even his finger… they are just carrying him around in the water… this is kinda really weird. I’m really hoping that this isn’t some kind of hoax, but that just seems really strange
Can’t even imagine
I wonder what was the first word he said (trough computer) when they found out about his condition…I suppose, “”
When I first read an article about this yesterday I was amazed…but after seeing the videos…meh…this guy “talking” through a facilitator guiding his hand while he’s obviously asleep is as believable as the backwards retarded cheerleader chick.
my mind cant even wrap itself around the idea of this actually happening
It was “key”. Supposedly, the doctor was showing him keys at the time.
Edit:
I’m also beginning to think this guy isn’t much more than a fleshy Ouija board…
OMG :lol:
I heard that the first thing he typed was FUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
I heard it was “how bout a blow j?”
I had a dream the other day where I was getting suffocated. I woke up but couldn’t move and was gasping for air. Freaked me the fuck out.
Sounds like it’s at least a little true because he can answer yes/no questions using his foot.
Houben has since proven able to answer yes-or-no questions with slight movements of his foot. It’s a tremendous accomplishment, and raises the chilling possibility that, as estimated by Coma Science Group leader Steven Laureys in a Monday New York Times story, as many as four in 10 people considered utterly comatose may be misdiagnosed.
His moving narrative about a second birth sounds like it came entirely from his “facilitator” though.
Talked to my g/f about this last night who is in grad school for psych and works with autistic people.
She mentioned that there was a huge deal about people leading autistic patients hands to see if they could communicate properly. The theory was that most autistic people are just as smart, or smarter than average but they just can’t communicate it. The person assisting them was called a facilitator.
A huge law suit came about where an autistic patient said his dad raped him, this being done through the facilitator. They eventually did tests where they would show the facilitator one thing, and the patient another (without them knowing that they saw something different) and the facilitator would “assist” the patient in saying what the facilitator saw, not what the patient saw.
I found that interesting. The facilitator would actually do it sub-consciously. I doubt they all bad ill-intentions. But it all just goes to show that this is probably bullshit too.
^^ that is what Silver posted about http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/...s-to-stop.html