Download or read book The Dreams That Changed My Life written by Deborah Hodapp and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While in a coma, I had dreams that were so real and vivid. I asked my husband, Don, about some things and he must have thought I was crazy. When I got back home we realized they were dreams that I had in the coma. I found it amazing because I cant even remember nighttime dreams, but I remembered these dreams and wrote them down as they came to me. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.
Download or read book Journeys in Dream and Imagination written by Artur Lundkvist and published by Thunder's Mouth Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells the author's dream experiences while he was semi-conscious following a two-month-long coma."
Download or read book Comatic Dreams written by Les Lowe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex and Ben are two brothers who grew up in a military family. Constantly moving from base to base they became each other's best friends. When a life-altering situation arises it tears the brothers apart, leaving Alex to live without his family. A traumatic accident brings the brothers together again with hopes of becoming the friends they once were. One night after being attacked, the oldest brother Ben is left in a coma. Follow Ben through his comatic dreams as he tries to find a way back to the living. In order to find his way back he must be willing to accept his destiny into a world he once refused to acknowledge, but can he?
Download or read book Coma Dreams written by Denny Paul and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty-five years Denny Paul roamed from one place to the next, riding the rodeo circuit, drinking, carousing, and getting in trouble with the law.During these squandered years, Denny Paul was an alcoholic, not having a care in the world for himself, or for others. But, on March 17, 2012, his life changed.After being kicked multiple times in the head, severely injured, Denny should have died. Instead, in a coma for weeks, barely hanging onto life, Denny saw what so many have only dreamed of seeing.Denny Paul saw the light from the “other side.” Floating from his hospital bed, Denny went to Heaven. In the Kingdom of his Maker, he realized the value of life. He saw his own life flashing before his eyes. He saw the path of devastation he'd left behind during his years of drinking and not caring.Coma Dreams is the true story about Denny's own destruction, lessons learned, and his miraculous recovery once he decided to live; that he wanted the opportunity to change his life, for the better. Now enjoying life to the fullest, Denny is glad to be alive. Today he lives for his family and friends—and for himself—sharing his own tribulations to help others still traveling a road of ruin. Coma Dreams is about one man's desires to change his way of life, making that change, and his survival. A story you won't soon forget.
Download or read book The Language and Imagery of Coma and Brain Injury written by Matthew Colbeck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What occurs within coma? What does the coma patient experience? How does the patient perceive the world outside of coma, if at all? The simple answer to these questions is that we don't know. Yet the sheer volume of literary and media texts would have us believe that we do. Examining representations of coma and brain injury across a variety of texts, this book investigates common tropes and linguistic devices used to portray the medical condition of coma, giving rise to universal mythologies and misconceptions in the public domain. Matthew Colbeck looks at how these texts represent, or fail to represent, long-term brain injury, drawing on narratives of coma survivors that have been produced and curated through writing groups he has run over the last 10 years. Discussing a diverse range of cultural works, including novels by Irvine Welsh, Stephen King, Tom McCarthy and Douglas Coupland, as well as film and media texts such as The Sopranos, Kill Bill, Coma and The Walking Dead, Colbeck provides an explanation for our fascination with coma. With a proliferation of misleading stories of survival in the media and in literature, this book explores the potential impact these have upon our own understanding of coma and its victims.
Download or read book Coma Dreams written by Gary Springer and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10-13 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part Hemingway, part Richard Ford, and unlike anyone you've ever read before, Gary Springer's brilliant Coma Dreams (And Other Stories) gets at the heart of violence in America and marks the debut of a unique new voice in literature.In ten carefully crafted tales, Springer explores the darkness that can cast shadows on any life. In the title story, a man remembers the short and violent life of his best friend who is now in a coma. In 'Scott,' a good Samaritan takes an ex-con off the streets and into his apartment. A woman drives herself to despair caring for her dying father in 'The Bitter Faithful,' and in 'Broken Fingers,' a wrestler grapples with forgiveness and revenge.Springer strips violence of its cinematic glamour and reveals the connections we struggle to make, and the wounds that somehow never quite heal. Coma Dreams (And Other Stories) is disturbing, haunting, and absolutely unforgettable.
Download or read book The Coma written by Alex Garland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Carl awakens from a coma after being attacked on a subway train, life around him feels unfamiliar, even strange. He arrives at his best friend's house without remembering how he got there; he seems to be having an affair with his secretary, which is pleasant but surprising. He starts to notice distortions in his experience, strange leaps in his perception of time. Is he truly reacting with the outside world, he wonders, or might he be terribly mistaken? So begins a dark psychological drama that raises questions about the the human psyche, dream versus reality, and the boundaries of consciousness. As Carl grapples with his predicament, Alex Garland - author of The Beach and the screenplay for 28 Days Later, plays with conventions and questions our assumptions about the way we exist in the world, even as it draws us into the unsettling and haunting book about a lost suitcase and a forgotten identity.
Download or read book Coma and Near Death Experience written by Alan Pearce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Examines the experiences of those who have survived comas • Demonstrates how a key element of the brain is switched off by coma-inducing sedatives, allowing the mind to break free from the body • Shares proven alternatives to medically-induced coma that are safer for treating critically ill patients and kinder for the patients and their families Every day around the world, thousands of people are placed in medically-induced comas. For some coma survivors, the experience is an utter blank. Others lay paralyzed, aware of everything around them but unable to move, speak, or even blink. Many experience alternate lives spanning decades, lives they grieve once awakened. Some encounter ultra-vivid nightmares, while others undergo a deep, spiritual oneness with the Universe or say they have glimpsed the Afterlife. Examining the beautiful and disturbing experiences of those who have survived comas, Alan and Beverley Pearce explore the mysterious levels of consciousness this near-death experience unlocks. They demonstrate how a key element of the brain is switched off by coma-inducing sedatives, allowing the mind to break free from the body and experience a greater expansion of consciousness. Revealing the dangers of deep sedation and other intensive care procedures, the authors show how comas are unnecessary more often than not and that many coma survivors go on to suffer lasting cognitive and physical harm. Exploring proven alternatives to medically-induced coma, they share tried and tested protocols that are safer for critically ill patients and kinder for the patients and their families. Showing how we can avoid the suffering caused by comas, this book reveals the wide variety of conscious states that can arise during comas, both positive and negative, and how accepting the reality of these experiences is crucial not only to the recovery of coma survivors, but also to the field of consciousness and NDE studies.
Download or read book The Book of Dreams written by Nina George and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warm, wise, and magical—the latest novel by the bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP and THE LITTLE FRENCH BISTRO is an astonishing exploration of the thresholds between life and death Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats, comatose, between dreams, reliving the fairytales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place. After the accident, Sam—a thirteen-year old synesthete with an IQ of 144 and an appetite for science fiction—waits by his father’s bedside every day. There he meets Eddie Tomlin, a woman forced to confront her love for Henri after all these years, and twelve-year old Madelyn Zeidler, a coma patient like Henri and the sole survivor of a traffic accident that killed her family. As these four very different individuals fight—for hope, for patience, for life—they are bound together inextricably, facing the ravages of loss and first love side by side. A revelatory, urgently human story that examines what we consider serious and painful alongside light and whimsy, THE BOOK OF DREAMS is a tender meditation on memory, liminality, and empathy, asking with grace and gravitas what we will truly find meaningful in our lives once we are gone.
Download or read book The Electric Coma Dream written by Matthew Gillies and published by Flinch Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The End of Trauma written by George A. Bonanno and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With “groundbreaking research on the psychology of resilience” (Adam Grant), a top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is in and fail to recognize how resilient people really are. After 9/11, mental health professionals flocked to New York to handle what everyone assumed would be a flood of trauma cases. Oddly, the flood never came. In The End of Trauma, pioneering psychologist George A. Bonanno argues that we failed to predict the psychological response to 9/11 because most of what we understand about trauma is wrong. For starters, it’s not nearly as common as we think. In fact, people are overwhelmingly resilient to adversity. What we often interpret as PTSD are signs of a natural process of learning how to deal with a specific situation. We can cope far more effectively if we understand how this process works. Drawing on four decades of research, Bonanno explains what makes us resilient, why we sometimes aren’t, and how we can better handle traumatic stress. Hopeful and humane, The End of Trauma overturns everything we thought we knew about how people respond to hardship.
Download or read book The Dream Interpretation Dictionary written by J.M. DeBord and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unravels dream symbols and their meanings What do reoccurring dreams reveal? What's the purpose of nightmares—and can they be stopped? Why do some people show up in dreams? Are some dreams actually warnings? Going beyond superficial explanations, The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs and Meanings brings a deep and rich understanding to a variety of images, signs, and symbols. It considers the context to help anyone complete their own personal jigsaw puzzle. It provides the tools to allow anyone to sort through possible connections and to make sense of their dreams. From entries ranging from “Abandonment” to “Zoo,” this massive tome analyzes sex dreams, money dreams, dreams of falling, running, or paralysis and much, much more. It brings profound insights to thousands of dream messages. It shows what to look for and what to ignore and teaches how to master dream interpretation. Examples of symbols are given. The complexity and context of a dream are explored. Signs and their meanings are illustrated. Illuminating the intelligence of dreams, decoding clues, explaining symbols, and revealing the universal meanings of each as well as their subtler associations, The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings explores the messages delivered by the unconscious mind during sleep. It examines how dreams connect to daily life. It shows how dreams can lead to deeper understanding and self-awareness. Also included are a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, adding to the book’s usefulness.
Download or read book Coma Dreams written by Nelson Mantle and published by LPS Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling with inner demons after the loss of his child, Retired Air Force Colonel Brett Stafford is searching for missing pieces in his life when he is involved in a single-car accident and slips into a coma for six months. On the eve of the day Colonel Stafford is to be taken off life support, newbie healer Brennen Reynolds (From Full Breach: Book I in the Blue Warp series) attempts to revive him. He is only partially successful, as the person retrieved from the coma is not Colonel Stafford. Chaos ensues when the new entity, using the colonel's body, escapes from the hospital and vanishes into the waking world. Pressured by time, Brennen and his friends must try to piece together what went wrong and how to reverse the process before the colonel disappears forever.
Download or read book The Girl in a Coma written by John Moss and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allison Briscoe is your average fifteen-year-old-until someone tries to kill her. Shot in the head, her doctors and family think she is in a coma, but in fact, though she cannot move, she can think, she can hear, and she can dream. Each night, Allison lives vicariously through her pioneer ancestors, experiencing their adventures through their eyes. First, she enters the world of Rebecca Haun, a fifteen-year-old rebel who lived in Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War. To prove a friend innocent of murder, Rebecca betrays her Mennonite beliefs and joins the Women's Brigade with George Washington's rag-tag army at Valley Forge. And each day, Allison struggles to find a way to show her family that she is awake—a goal that becomes increasingly desperate when she realizes that whoever shot her has come back to finish the job.
Download or read book Butchered Dreams written by Hadena James and published by Hadena James. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Butcher is on a rampage. He's working his way across the state of Missouri, in a reign of terror, righting the wrongs he believes have been committed against his family and himself. In his wake, he leaves a blood bath; a string of mutilated victims that seem to have no pattern. With The Butcher, it's personal. Both Aislinn Cain and Malachi Blake have ties to this monster. As a result, neither the SCTU nor the VCU can assist in his capture and the job is given to two untrained FBI agents. When one is murdered, Cain and Blake are forced to join the hunt, as consultants. Both of them will have to battle their own demons to catch The Butcher. Demons that will show exactly how much monster they each have inside themselves. A truth that neither of them are ready to face.
Download or read book Again written by Romy Shiller Ph.D. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Again combines an academic exploration of reincarnation with real-life experiences. Using as a basis the altered reality of quantum physics, Romy Shiller extrapolates. It is for everyone. More than anything it is an insightful philosophy on life. Romy Shiller often uses her own examples as a part of the exploration. Shiller is at once researcher and subject of focus. Her take on Life is unique and interesting. Beyond her area of concentration, she often extrapolates and comments on the experience. Not only that but Shiller has invented her own rules for reincarnation. Shiller has coined a certain term. Her take on distinct aspects of reincarnation absolutely goes against popular suggestion. Her perspective on Time is distinctive. Ideas of the body are challenging to the reader and go against what most people take for granted. The nature of History is put into question. Romy Shiller, is considered a medical mystery. In 2003 she had a brain tumour removed and went into a five month coma. Afterwards she had Akinetic Mutism and did not speak until March 2004. How she personally negotiates shifts and fluctuations in her own life is remarkable to some.
Download or read book Coma Dreams written by Denny Paul and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty-five years Denny Paul roamed from one place to the next, riding the rodeo circuit, drinking, carousing, and getting in trouble with the law. During these squandered years, Denny Paul was an alcoholic, not having a care in the world for himself, or for others. But, on March 17, 2012, his life changed. After being kicked multiple times in the head, severely injured, Denny should have died. Instead, in a coma for weeks, barely hanging onto life, Denny saw what so many have only dreamed of seeing. Denny Paul saw the light from the "other side." Floating from his hospital bed, Denny went to Heaven. In the Kingdom of his Maker, he realized the value of life. He saw his own life flashing before his eyes. He saw the path of devastation he'd left behind during his years of drinking and not caring. Coma Dreams is the true story about Denny's own destruction, lessons learned, and his miraculous recovery once he decided to live; that he wanted the opportunity to change his life, for the better. Now enjoying life to the fullest, Denny is glad to be alive. Today he lives for his family and friends-and for himself-sharing his own tribulations to help others still traveling a road of ruin. Coma Dreams is about one man's desires to change his way of life, making that change, and his survival. A story you won't soon forget.
