23 years not in a coma

Read the incredible story of Rom Houben, who was trapped in his paralysed body after a car crash, as doctors thought he was in a coma but he wasn't.

"... he screamed to doctors that he could hear them - but could make no sound. 'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,' said Mr Houben, now 46, who doctors thought was in a persistent vegatative state."

The scariest line

"'I dreamed myself away,' he added, tapping his tale out with the aid of a computer."

23 years unable to communicate and treated as if in a coma but actually fully aware, that sounds like a living nightmare to me.

I do wonder what the change in the science was that determined that Rom Houben was not in a coma though...