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eNoq
Profile Joined June 2009
Netherlands502 Posts
November 23 2009 21:01 GMT
#21
Holy shit, 23 years!
Thats longer than i am alive, i can't even imagine what its like, this is completely insane.
This man deserves to be treated like a king.
Proburu
LordWeird
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States3411 Posts
November 23 2009 21:15 GMT
#22
It's probably terrible to want to cry and scream and kill yourself but not be able to do it for twenty three years. It was probably the most torturous twenty three years anybody has ever had to go through. I imagine a lot of the time he tried to sleep.

God that sucks.
Chains none
InToTheWannaB
Profile Joined September 2002
United States4770 Posts
November 23 2009 21:26 GMT
#23
Fuck put a warning on this thread or something. I thought it be about a guy who woke up from a coma after 23 and remembered nothing of the past years. Just like every other story like this. This shit is scary and i wish i never read it. Fuck im going to go cry now
When the spirit is not altogether slain, great loss teaches men and women to desire greatly, both for themselves and for others.
Mykill
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada3402 Posts
November 23 2009 21:42 GMT
#24
damn 23 years of lying around sucks...
[~~The Impossible Leads To Invention~~] CJ Entusman #52 The problem with internet quotations is that they are hard to verify -Abraham Lincoln c.1863
wishbones
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada2600 Posts
November 23 2009 21:45 GMT
#25
id want to shave my pubes.
joined TL.net in 2006 (aka GMer) - http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=41944#2
Spike
Profile Joined October 2003
United States1392 Posts
November 23 2009 21:46 GMT
#26
Didn't really read the article; could he still feel?

Imagine having an itch you can't scratch

Also brings up scenes of Kill Bill but at least he isn't a hot girl.
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-11-23 21:49:37
November 23 2009 21:49 GMT
#27
Am I the only one that thinks it's not that bad?

Maybe I have the wrong idea of what it was like for this guy, but I doubt his brain was 100% lucid. I have to imagine it as being a much more dreamlike / hazy state.
aeroH
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1034 Posts
November 23 2009 21:50 GMT
#28
i wouldn't actually mind being paralyzed for that long.. be nice to know how it felt.
of course i'd want my time back afterwards
LarJarsE
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States1378 Posts
November 23 2009 21:50 GMT
#29
On November 24 2009 05:44 Halfpastnoob wrote:
Lol'd pretty hard



But on a serious note:Fucking 23 years...god this man has gone through the biggest boredem possible...Good thing hes out of it now!


now everything must be so damn exciting, even though he can only use his hand a little
since 98'
OppositeSavior
Profile Joined November 2009
9 Posts
November 23 2009 21:51 GMT
#30
I get kill bill vibes x 23 years
All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
biomedical
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
235 Posts
November 23 2009 21:51 GMT
#31
there are thousands upon thousands of bed ridden people who can communicate barely if at all (stoke victims for example)
SilverSkyLark
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Philippines8437 Posts
November 23 2009 21:51 GMT
#32
damn, that's the curse gods give to really bad guys on mythology books...damn...
"If i lost an arm, I would play w3." -IntoTheWow || "Member of Hyuk Hyuk Hyuk cafe. He's the next Jaedong, baby!"
new_construct
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Canada1041 Posts
November 23 2009 21:51 GMT
#33
I think he must have reached a whole new level in understanding of life considering that he had all that time to think through things. I mean he could write a book on his 23 years of loneliness. It could be interesting.
Try
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States1293 Posts
November 23 2009 21:53 GMT
#34
On November 24 2009 06:49 travis wrote:
Am I the only one that thinks it's not that bad?

Maybe I have the wrong idea of what it was like for this guy, but I doubt his brain was 100% lucid. I have to imagine it as being a much more dreamlike / hazy state.


+ Show Spoiler +
Although he could hear every word his doctors spoke, he could not communicate with them.

"I screamed, but there was nothing to hear," he said, via his keyboard.


I imagine at first he was pretty much awake, but later, after a few days or weeks, his mind might have drifted into a more hazy state. Still, however, i imagine whenever someone came to change him or whatever he would wake back up.
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-11-23 21:56:36
November 23 2009 21:55 GMT
#35
at bare minimum, it had to be very confusing and disorienting.
Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-11-23 22:06:39
November 23 2009 22:05 GMT
#36
On November 24 2009 06:55 travis wrote:
at bare minimum, it had to be very confusing and disorienting.

at the bare minimum? I dont see how you could read that article and then say something like this. The guy was clearly lucid.

"I'll never forget the day that they discovered me, it was my second birth."

He was perfectly conscious the whole time. It also says earlier in the article that is brain was functioning "almost normally".
lvatural
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States347 Posts
November 23 2009 22:07 GMT
#37
On November 24 2009 06:49 travis wrote:
Am I the only one that thinks it's not that bad?

Maybe I have the wrong idea of what it was like for this guy, but I doubt his brain was 100% lucid. I have to imagine it as being a much more dreamlike / hazy state.


How you reached this determination that he is in a 'hazy state' is beyond me (pure speculation imo) but even so...23 years is a very long time.

Do you think solitary confinement for 23 years is not that bad? I think the case presented here is arguably a lot worse.
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Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
November 23 2009 22:08 GMT
#38
I am confused by what you are saying.

Are you saying that it wouldn't be extremely confusing and disorienting?
skronch
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States2717 Posts
November 23 2009 22:10 GMT
#39
anyone reminded of this movie? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211933/
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-11-23 22:13:55
November 23 2009 22:13 GMT
#40
On November 24 2009 07:07 lvatural wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 24 2009 06:49 travis wrote:
Am I the only one that thinks it's not that bad?

Maybe I have the wrong idea of what it was like for this guy, but I doubt his brain was 100% lucid. I have to imagine it as being a much more dreamlike / hazy state.


How you reached this determination that he is in a 'hazy state' is beyond me (pure speculation imo) but even so...23 years is a very long time.

Do you think solitary confinement for 23 years is not that bad? I think the case presented here is arguably a lot worse.


yes it was clearly speculation. isn't all of this? have any of us been in his situation before?

I reached it based on a period of time when i stayed in bed (mostly with my eyes closed) for about 48 hours. It didn't take long before i was in a super hazy state, disoriented, and didn't know when it was or wtf was going on, and wasn't sure about the order of events that had occured to me in the last 48 hours.

I have to imagine that without sight, and communication with others, yes things would become very hazy and dreamlike.


And I think solitary confinement for 23 years would likely be worse than this.

The more solidly the ego is formed, the easier it is to freak out and feel bad.
If you're just floating along in your own mind most of the time, I doubt it is as bad as having to be fully awake and sitting there for an equal amount of time.


and for when someone asks, the reason i stayed in bed that long was that i was super depressed
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