I’d like to point out that in that other thread Falasha in her first telling of the ambulance ride said that she could only see the backs of heads of the paramedics while having a conversation with her mother to calm her down.
Then after I asked this…
Could it be that the reason you can only remember the backs of heads is that you didn’t really see it so have no memory of faces? Only put together a false memory from what you may have heard either during the ride or later from you mother.
…Falasha’s story changed to actually seeing one of the paramedics faces.
I remember the look on a paramedics face when he turned around to confront my mother. It was impatient disgust and it shut my mother up.
Like Twistor59 pointed out that her out of body experience is the visual part and this could very well be a false memory that was created as a visual to go along with what Falasha could hear in the ambulance, Falasha is not having any of it. She does not seem to understand that you don’t need to have seen something to have a visual memory.
These visual memories that do not come from actually seeing something would not automatically or always be called false memories, we visualize scenes from novels, or stories told to us. Radio worked very well in it’s early years because people could visualize what was going on in radio plays and live broadcasts. But if a person believes that the memory consists of what they actually saw then it is a false memory.
Falasha never makes clear the reason/s for her initial or following two weeks of unconsciousness. Was it drug induced because of the pain of her facial lacerations, or caused by an injury to the brain? She hasn’t said as far as I know that she was in a coma, but if that was the case there are different levels of comatose states ranging from partial states where the person can react to sensory stimuli to states of total absence of brain activity.
In any other that the most drastic states of drug induced unconsciousness or injury caused coma it is possible for people to hear what is going around them, and as has been said before the brain tries to put together a visual image of the auditory stimuli that it receives.
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