Coma

If you are in a coma it could suggest that events or hurts in your life have caused you to withdraw or be largely incapable of interacting with other people and events. It can also portray a situation in which you have become unconscious or unaware of what is going on around you and have turned inwards.

But in most cases this is probably depicting a part of you hurt at some time and it closed down. For instance if you have been deeply hurt emotionally in a relationship, you may still go on being capable of relating at a certain level, but the part of you that enters deeply into sexual and emotional relationships may have closed down, as in a coma.

Dreaming about this usually means you have become more aware of the situation and there is an opportunity to heal and awaken that facet of yourself.

If somebody else is in a coma, this might still be about what is described above, but it can also show you relating to the person in a non-verbal, heart to heart manner. Sometimes this is shown in dreams where you feel out of contact with someone you love or care for. In such cases the dream is showing that it is only the surface level of communication that is missing.

See Signs of consciousness in People who are Considered Vegetative

 

Comments

-Juliana smith 2017-06-17 4:33:50

I have this dream that I get in a car accident and I get knocked unconscious but I can get up and I can’t feel a think. The next thing I know is that I’m in a hospital bed with Ivy’s and all the medical care for coma patients but I never remember a think it’s always the same I have had this dream for a while and the one that I’m dating at the time is always there and he try’s to help me remember but I can never remember him or anything.really it’s all a blur.
What does this dream mean?

    -Tony Crisp 2017-06-18 13:07:51

    Juliana – I wonder if you found the entry on car crash – it can show a difficult relationship with another person, one that might damage your own sense of well-being or confidence. It can mean a difficulty in a sexual relationship too if the person is of the opposite sex. But even if not that, certainly it is about a confrontation or conflict in regard to decisions, directions or opinions.

    But in you crash it led to realisations – that you can get up, and that you can’t feel a thing. Strong realisations and dreams do not say such thing without good reasons. The hospital scene is another pointer to the fact that a part of your own inner life has been injured – often in childhood. See http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/#DreamWorld

    The fact that you are in a relationship with the ‘one you are dating’ is a very telling part of your story. The help he is giving is that he is relating to you. The way he relates is challenging you and so your dream, for it shows that you have been injured. Such injuries are like being wounded, but they do not show on your body. It sound as if your emotional range is part of the injury, and probably your ability to love fully; and I am guessing of course.

    You might find it helps reading http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/ – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/ and http://dreamhawk.com/body-and-mind/the-slow-breath/

-Mika 2017-05-26 3:23:02

I have a dream last night that im in coma. Strangely I am watching myself in the coma bed in hospital. I had someone with me. She is my friend in real life. I am talking with her. I asked her what would my parent feel when they see me in this situation. I looked at my comatose body. My look changed. My skin is soggy like an old lady but my face is fine. I picked up my phone and removed my password. So someone can use my phone even if I die. I told my friend that I have no chance to survived as I stare at my coma body. I think im a ghost in my dream. My friend was my way of communication in the real world. I finally accepted my death. But theres something inside me telling me that I still want to live. After that I stared at my coma body waiting for my ghost self to vanish. Then I woke up. This dream is bothering me.

    -Tony Crisp 2017-05-26 10:13:19

    Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.

    Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/

    Tony

    Rains – A dreamt of sister often is a way of seeing things about yourself you are avoiding knowing.

    If it is actually about yourself, it says that you are feeling great connection with the vital feminine principle of receptivity and formation. All that is receptive, nurtures and gives birth is at work. Persistence in a direction harmonious with personal needs and the society one lives within lead to success!

    With careful awareness your ability to receive, to nurture and bring forth the new can stream through you. Do not avoid uncertainty, or losing your way, but hold to your goal, and you will find your direction. Much confronts you. Take from it like the plant takes the minerals it needs from the soil. Build it into what you are developing within you. But also give of yourself to what is forming.

    You sexual feelings are the very foundation of your womanhood.

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    Submitted on 2017/05/25 at 9:40 am | In reply to catherine wright.
    Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.

    Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/

    Tony

    Mika – This is a very important dream. But remember that dream images usually symbolise something else. So being in a coma says that your life has not led you to the satisfaction you feel you wish for deep inside you. Such dissatisfaction changes the way you feel about life.

    This is shown in the dream as the body changes – an old lady and soggy skin. It is a sign that you are undergoing enormous changes. Like a caterpillar that looks like it is dying but is forming a new life.

    But your personality is founded on old ways of seeing your life and its meaning, and from that point of view it seems life is not worth living – a ghost of your real self. But our personality is simply a form that arose out of your past experiences. Please read http://dreamhawk.com/interesting-people/animal-children/#Program

    Nearly always when people dream about someone they know – your friend – or a strange new person or situation they automatically believe the dream is about that person, situation, or animal. But when we think of our friend or partner our thoughts are not them – but it is just our thoughts and feelings about them used as a dream person. So, your friend represents your inner support and communication between your old personality and a new viewpoint. The voice inside you that says you still want to live is the voice of the new you that is forming. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/growth-of-something/

-Terry 2017-05-11 18:00:45

So last night I had a dream that I was in a coma. I woke up from the coma to find out that I was pregnant throughout the time spent in a coma. And I had a daughter who was only a few months old. I was playing with her and didn’t even know she was my daughter until my sister told me she was. Does this have a meaning behind it or not ?

-Eamon 2017-03-12 18:40:51

I had a dream last night that I was in a cafe/library and in it I kept meeting with the same man and woman everyday for coffee. I kept asking them where I was and they wouldn’t tell me, they wanted me to figure it out. After a few times of meeting with them I asked them to tell me where I was and they said “Try and remember” and then I remembered that I had been in an accident and was in a coma. I could sense my family members around me in the hospital and in the coma cafe/library I started to flail my arms up and down and this meant that I could twitch a finger to show my family that I wasn’t brain dead inside.

I then realised that I was in the library so I could read books on comas and help myself get out of the coma.

Also in the coma at 6pm everyday, everyone in the cafe went into a mad rage and started attacking each other and killing each other. Every time I died and this is what reset the day in the coma cafe/library.

Any insight into what this all means would be greatly appreciated.

-Leslie 2017-02-26 17:42:40

My boyfriend is in a coma (for real). I had a dream he called me and he was ok. What does that mean?

    -Tony Crisp 2017-02-27 12:30:49

    Dear Leslie – Please see the email I sent you showing that people who appear to be in vegetative state have massive brain activity.

    I had a sever stroke a while ago, and although I was apparently ‘out of it’ I was aware that I was okay but that my brain was not functioning and I couldn’t speak or even move my body. I feel, and I am not alone, that the brain is a way that I/your boyfriend/everyone we can communicate through our body. If the brain is injured or sick we are locked out of being able to communicate through the normal ways. But your boyfriend definitely has or can communicate with you through dreams. 🙂

    See http://dreamhawk.com/news/debi-wanted-to-be-dead/

-sofi 2017-02-13 14:16:52

Hi I had a dream with my good friend splice sucwich is curently in a coma but I’m the dream it was my friend in the coma not him that he was telling me and my husband she’s my rock if she leaves so do i.. And I told him u have to bring strong for ure kids and then i asked what does the doctor say and he said yesterday I rubbed her feet and she moved them and I told him great that’s a good sighn right that probly means she’s starting to wake up and he said yes but they say the longer they take to wake up the harder it gets and that’s when I wook up what could that have meant?

-Menma 2017-01-08 0:18:43

In my dream I was in coma for 4 years (regarding to those unknown people inside my dream) because of a war… But It’s weird because in my dream it says I was asleep for 1973-2015! And that is absolutely not just four years! And moreover I am a man with an average age! I am bald and It looks like I was a veteran soldier…

    -Tony Crisp 2017-01-08 12:15:46

    Hi – I must take time to upgrade the dream dictionary, so must halt from answering your posts – I started revising it in 2006, and haven’t neared the end yet. I believe someone else may start giving interpretations.

    So, for a while I urge you to read http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/i-am-no-longer-interpreting-dreams/ – It describes ways that can help you.

    Tony

    Maybe you were. But to really KNOW it you must realise that dream images are like icons on a computer screen – You have to ‘click’ on your dream images to make them come alive. Thinking about them doesn’t work. You need to open yourself to the magic of them. To make them into the wonderful gateways they are you may have to learn certain skills. So try http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPersonOrThing

    I begin to talk as LIFE,

    And was saying –
    But it is human beings who wrote all the holy books.
    All of the stories arose out of me.
    All of the music all of the fears.
    All of the possibilities of life arose because I AM.
    Because I as human beings
    Attained self-awareness,
    All of this wonderful array of qualities arose.

    Now I move into being the story teller.
    I could hear the sound
    Of the birds and crickets outside,
    And it felt like I was experiencing
    How the world was millions of years ago,
    Not like going back into the past,
    But recognising how the past is still with us.

    I said – “There was a time when
    I heard it for the first time.
    I heard it all for the first time
    And I was amazed.
    I had been unconscious,
    Asleep, and I woke up.”

    I then heard it all for the first time.

    I could hear myself –
    Life – crying, laughing, mating.
    I was in awe.
    I was in AWE.
    And I fell down before myself
    And I worshipped.
    What creates all of this?
    What could create it?

    In my awe
    I listened to it so deeply,
    And I would get so entranced

    I would forget about everything else,
    And IT spoke to me.
    IT spoke to ME!
    It spoke to me.

-Galle 2016-10-26 14:05:56

In my dream my friends said I’m in coma for 3 years because I’m so depressed because I’m pregnant and got hit by a car or something. They give me a hint that my crush is the father of the baby. There are so many details but I don’t think I can type it down.

Ps. I’m just 12 and in my dream it was stated that after being in coma, I’m 17. Also my last period is two weeks ago.

-Serena 2016-08-17 17:48:24

I had a dream where I passed out the last thing i heard someone say was “Yep, she’s out”. I went into a coma, when woke up from that coma I was in hospital with a nurse. She did a few tests on me to see if I was still able to move, I then saw my grandmum and brother and asked what had happened, my grandmum said I had been in a coma for five years. I said it was cool that I was older but then I realised something. My girlfriend had probably moved on. It hurt (emotionally) so much even though it was only a dream. I panicked and begged the nurse for my phone, she gave it to me and I frantically scrolled through my phone whilst shouting my girlfriends name and begging that I didn’t loose her. Then I woke up before I could see if she was there.

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2016-08-22 7:36:28

    Dear Serena – As you can read in this entry;
    “But in most cases this is probably depicting a part of you hurt at some time and it closed down. For instance if you have been deeply hurt emotionally in a relationship, you may still go on being capable of relating at a certain level, but the part of you that enters deeply into sexual and emotional relationships may have closed down, as in a coma.
    Dreaming about this usually means you have become more aware of the situation and there is an opportunity to heal and awaken that facet of yourself.”
    “Being able to move” can assist you in your healing process; http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/
    The pain of losing your girlfriend may be a sign that your infant or child self is still wounded or malformed, and needs healing.
    See also http://dreamhawk.com/health-and-healing/inner-baby-and-child/
    To explore what your girlfriend symbolises in your dream and to get a feeling understanding of “her” you can use http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
    Anna 🙂

-Alice 2016-06-19 13:34:39

Hello, my boyfriend was put in an induced coma because of a serious accident he was in and I had a dream last night that he woke up from the coma, is that a good sign or ?

-Gerard 2016-06-15 8:19:08

I had two dreams which occurred back to back, that formed a linear time line. The first night my dream related to real life experiences. In this dream I was camping with friends (actual real life friends) and embarrassed myself. I felt as if I was a burden to everyone and caused my friends to have a bad time. But in my real life experience the opposite happened. The next night I dreamed that coming home from the same camping trip, but I was with unfamiliar friends this time. We stopped for food and a fight proceeded and I lost. In the dream I didn’t realize the fight caused me to go into a coma for six months. I was informed that Ihad been in a coma by the person who caused it. He was apologizing for what had occurred and he didn’t know that I didn’t realize I had been in a coma. As he was describing what happened I started to regain the memory. I experienced a flood of emotion as the recollection of my memories flashed through my mind. I started to become extremely sad and this is the moment when I woke up. As I regained consciousness from my dream, I realized I was crying. I set in bed a few minutes, still crying, trying to grasp what had just took place. What does this mean? Am I repressing emotions from events that took place in real life? Or am I subconsciously trying to tell myself I need new friends? I’m very interested in finding out the cause of my emotions from my dream. I’ve never woke up crying or dreamed I was in a coma. Your insight would be greatly appreciated!

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2016-06-20 12:18:24

    Dear Gerard – I see your second dream as a healing dream; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/healing-action-within-dreams/ and when you feel like exploring if there are more emotions that needs to be expressed you can use http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/
    Your first dream is not very detailed unfortunately.
    What did a part of you do that made you feel embarrassed?
    Which part of you feels it is a burden to your other selves that are symbolised by your friends in the dream?
    We all have a family of selves that lives within each of us. We have pushers and critics and pleasers and perfectionists and bums, slackers, and manipulators. We have feeling selves and unfeeling selves, with vulnerable, playful and magical children. We have heroes and villains, matriarchs and patriarchs, visionaries and cynics. The range of selves is amazing; it seems to be limitless. (Quoted from Voice Dialogue International)
    If you still feel exploring the role of your own dream figure in your dream and those of your inner friends you can use http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
    The fight that took place in your second dream and that caused a part of you to go into a coma probably took place in your inner world only.
    This means that your dream may reflect an inner fight or conflict and the way you chose to “solve” this conflict is by not expressing a part of yourself anymore.
    See also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/conflicts/
    In the entry on “conflicts” you can read how a dreamer explores his conflicting or struggling selves and if you feel like it you can do that too by using “Being the person” for your own dream figure and for “the person who caused the coma”.
    Anna 🙂

-Lil 2016-06-01 7:11:34

Hey I had a two weird dreams in the same night, my first one I was running on the beach I think, and someone came from behind me with a bat and hit me around the head a good few times I was then in a coma at a hospital, for some weird reason I was pregnant, and while in a coma I gave birth which is really weird I heard voices saying stuff as if I really was in a coma, telling me to push and other things as I faded in and out of consciousness, when I did come out of my coma it was a year later and my child was four months home as I went home I found out my bf was cheating on me? Like what does that mean I don’t normally remember dreams I haven’t in ages!? Second dream was about an Indian girl, I don’t really rember how it came about but she was seriously hurt and she was missing in the woods I tried helping her family find her after a while we all seperated then I found her she was badly injured well no like loads of blood she had tubes going through her nose but I can’t remember much from my second dream but we ended up coming back to mine and I had a chat with her, she was being abused by her family so I wanted to adopt her police where called and everything does anyone no what this means?? Would help thankyou xx

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2016-06-04 10:39:26

    Dear Lil – Your first dream shows how your past hurts catches up with you.
    Most difficult birth dreams are about coming to terms with your existence. Many of us are still wondering whether we wanted to be, or want to be, born. ‘To be or not to be’, that is still the question for many of us. Lots of us live at a remove from life because of this.
    Being in a coma is also a symbol for living at a remove from life; http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/
    Your boyfriend having an affair may reflect how you – your inner male; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/archetype-of-the-animus-jungs-view-of-the-male-in-the-female/ – and/or your boyfriend in waking life long for a more open and deeper relationship with the part in you that has been denied expression.
    This denied and hurt part is shown in your second dream as an Indian girl; she may reflect how you have lost connection with your deep natural feelings, your passion and with your inner wisdom.
    The willingness to adopt her may reflect your awareness of having abandoned this part of you and your attempt to now give that part of yourself the love and security it needs.
    Apart from using “Opening to Life” to reconnect with denied and repressed parts in you, you can use http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson for your inner Indian girl and of course for every other figure in your dream if you feel like it.
    Anna 🙂

-Amelia 2016-04-22 10:55:20

I keep having a reoccurring dream involving a coma. It usually involves me seeming myself in a coma but only for a short period. I wake up from the coma and neither my family nor friends seem happy to see me. The dreams usually end with me going off on some unrelated journey with a stranger. Like last nights dream I went on an adventure to find a giant bathtub. It’s never has no real correlation to the coma.

    -Anna - Tony's Assistant 2016-04-25 14:30:52

    Dear Amelia – In general dreams recur because there are ways you habitually respond to your internal or external world. Because your attitude or response is unchanging, the dream that reflects it remains the same. It is noticeable in those who explore their dreams using such techniques as described under http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/processing-dreams/ that recurring themes disappear or change because the attitudes or habitual anxieties that gave rise to them have been met or transformed.
    When you see yourself in a coma for a short period it may reflect that your observer becomes aware that a part of you is not expressed; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/self-observation/
    The reason why you do not express it becomes clear in the next part of the dream; “I wake up from the coma and neither my family nor friends seem happy to see me.”
    Your family may represent values, attitudes and emotional or social responses you have absorbed from your family and these are in conflict with your own needs and desires.
    I do not share your perception that the end of your recurring dreams has no correlation to the coma.
    The last part of your dream may reflect what inner journey you have to consciously undertake to allow yourself new experiences in your waking life, rather than repressing this part of you until it is in a coma.
    Is the stranger a man or a woman? How do you feel when you are in his/her company?
    Can you imagine the stranger as a part of you that you do not recognize yet, a part that loves adventures?
    See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
    What do you associate with a giant bathtub?
    See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/bath-bathing/
    Anna 🙂

-Kaysie 2016-03-13 17:40:45

I had a dream that I was in an accident and went into a coma. The doctors decided to do experimental surgery on my leg but didnt give me anesthesia because they didn’t think i would wake up. I suddenly woke from the coma in the middle of surgery, screaming in pain. After I woke up after the surgery I could barely walk. I wanted to go see my friends so I went to the school and it seemed as if no one really cared that I was gone or noticed u was back. All the while, I thought I was only out for a few days or so. Finaly, I saw my best friend and she was very calm and talked to me as if nothing happened. I asked her what I missed in the last few days and she looked at me and said “Kaysie, you’ve been in a coma for two years”. My stomach dropped and everything turned an erie yellow. Her and her boyfriend took me home and my parents didn’t even seem to notice I was there. No one seemed to even notice I was gone

-Sisi 2015-08-14 4:09:31

I had a dream that I was in coma for 4 years due to an accident during vacation and when I woke up I saw many things had changed. My parents and my brother were right there waiting for me and I was surprise to know they all had waited. There were tribe-like groups of my friends (in the dream but irl I dont know the people I saw) and the were like in fights with each other. My current classmates at uni all came to have a lecture where I was and in the end they told me how I had already lost those four years of school and it was over. My roommate was there acting all the same. Then something happened that some groups wanted to kill me and my friends promised they’d protect me and fight with me. So first I got into a fight, but then dad saved me and took me away. A big car came to get me and we were all in ready to go home.

Ps. I live in Albania. In my dream I passed the coma in Peshawar, Pakistan. (I’ve never been there)

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