Sentence examples for waking coma from inspiring English sources

Make no mistake: in "Beijing Coma" Ma Jian takes as a given Stephen Dedalus's dictum, "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake". And not just for his protagonist, Dai Wei — who has lain in a waking coma, conscious but paralyzed, since he was shot leaving Tiananmen Square — but also for most of the moving, breathing people who surround him.

The movie was so flat and formulaic, it sent me into a kind of waking coma.

Third option is the nightmare, for me: like slipping into a waking coma you can't tell anyone you're in.

And, in fact, there are many states between waking and coma, conditions in which the mind is asleep yet conscious.

The many topics covered include consciousness in vision and inner speech, immediate memory and attention, waking, dreaming, coma, the effects of brain damage, fringe consciousness, hypnosis, and dissociation.

Amnesia in real life is not as it is portrayed in films, where we see people waking from comas having forgotten their entire past.

An extreme example of its "paradoxal reaction" is the drug's ability to wake up coma patients.

The absolute bottom for me is the track "I Can't Live Without My Mother's Love," a song that would wake a coma patient up just so she could say, "Hey dude, cheer up".

The former British middleweight champion Nick Blackwell is "smiling again" after waking from a coma, his brother Daniel has said.

Miraculously resuscitated, he slips into a three-month-long coma, waking up to discover that he has lost his memory.

For Paul, leaving felt like waking from a coma — he was released into a world of light, sound, movement and color.