@trauma57, thank you for adding your experience to this thread. I was intubated/trached and in a coma for 7 weeks this summer due to Covid. I did not know I was being intubated, and had no chance to prepare or ask questions. The dreams I had while unconscious are still so vivid, 5 months later. I still can't tell if some of them were dreams or reality, but some of them were clearly rooted in what was happening around me. (For instance, I thought that a team of nurse's aides were following me around town, popping up to say "Mrs Smith, do you know where you are?") The most common denominator was that I was paralyzed in the dreams; I was propped against things or laying down while things happened around me. I wonder if you were unable to move in your dreams?

I try to think of the positive: we had an experience that most people will never know. (Not one we would have chosen, of course, but still unique!) I am no longer afraid of dying as I knew I was dying in my dreams, and was at peace. I also have such a heart for the other Covid-19 sufferers going through their own ICU experience. I hope to be a volunteer resource for families at my local hospital, once we're able to do that again. I hope you are doing well!

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