I know there is a movie by the name of "Dreamland", but I haven't watched it or even know much about it. Also, I doubt that it has a genuine bearing upon something I've always found very interesting although it may look like it's related to my subject.
What I find very, very interesting and which sort of looks like some special "dreamland" is this: Comas. Death may be the ultimate "Dreamland", but if so comas come second. People in comas seem to be in a very deep sleep, but although not all comas are the same it's obvious that it's more than just a pleasant "nap". Some very deep comas you may never wake up from, but you may
live a shadowy life totally dependent on those who take care of you and
keep you alive.
I don't pretend to know much about the medical distinctions between different kinds of comas, and I see them more like an extraordinary - and very mysterious - spiritual experience that all of us may have if the goddesses of fate so decide: Have a stroke, a brain tumor, a traumatic head injury or let yourself sink into the "loving" arms of the gods of strong drugs or alcohol, and whoopsie, there you have your coma. Not that you may want it, but there it is, and I may last much longer than anyone would wish, least of all you or me. However, some comas may be more than just a little "weird", they a downright strange. This is one of them:
That poor girl lost three weeks of her ordinary life, but which she would have liked to exchange with her dream-life, raising children and whatever. I try to imagine something like that happening to me, and the possibilities are endless. I can imagine how I in my coma may live out my most secret dreams and get very upset when I wake up and find that they are just dreams and nothing but that. Actually, I think I would feel very cheated just like this young, unhappy, French girl. I bet she might experience some other alternate "dream-lives" if she ever had a new Coma, because I suspect that not all, but only some people have the ability to open up to something like what she experienced.
I wonder what the very sweet child star Jo Ann Marlow who appeared in 29 movies before she became a famous attorney experienced in her lengthy coma: She had a coma and didn't get out of it again. On the contrary, she spent 22 years in this coma before dying in 1991. Hopefully, her dream-landscape was one of pleasureful events with no room for nightmares or other horrors.
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