Doctors later told me they were amazed he was lucid and talking when he arrived.
Holmgren said trainers reported that McCoy was "lucid and talking" when they tended to him and that trainers told Shurmur that McCoy was fine to return to the game.
But, knowing him as a writer avowedly committed to Marxist principles of social justice, with an intense sensitivity to contemporary moral and emotional complexities and a thoughtful mind that finds expression in lucid, cogent talks and essays, I wonder if he uses the horrific as a brilliant barrage of blanks concealing a subtler, deeper engagement with the dark side.
The singer's physician Dr Andrew Thillainayagam said he was conscious, lucid and talking to his loved ones, at The London Clinic in central London.
Morley has spoken at Cambridge University, been featured in The Guardian, spoken on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 4 and given the first ever TED talk on lucid dreaming.
Some days, her mind was lucid, and she would talk about the red shoes that hurt her feet but which she could not part with, or the medication that made her brain feel dead and left her body in pain.
He gave a lucid and thoroughly depressing talk on "China's Role in the Global Climate Game," describing a number of unpleasant options China, the United States, and the rest of the world will have to face in dealing with climate changes already underway.
Now technically there are other ways of creating such bursts of emotion, but as we are talking about lucid dreaming here - an activity that takes place in bed - it makes sense to focus on the resources which come most readily.
"As late as yesterday, she was quite lucid, because I was there talking with her," he told the site.
According to the classified internal documents, he told C.I.A. investigators that Jamadi seemed "lucid," noting that he was "talking during intake".
They blend their eloquent talking heads and lucid narration with vintage photographs and those recreated scenes in which historical figures are represented by close-ups of hands (in this case, holding a glowing cigar or pouring a drink) or shots of bodies and buildings viewed from odd angles.
