Let’s ignore the difficulties of making this happen lol, I also wonder how he would react when he woke up.
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Let’s ignore the difficulties of making this happen lol, I also wonder how he would react when he woke up.
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The child would have no idea, if the child was born and immediately gone into a coma and it survived for 20 years. It would only have dreams about what it knew. These dreams would be emotionally fictional with no concept of anything from the outside world. The dreams would be very limited if anything, but most of it would be darkness. If anything at all, it would depend on the child’s brain, acknowledging parts of its past over the years, but it would require a specific set of genes and identity knowledge to know anything beyond darkness.
I’d imagine it would be the same as in the womb – muffled sounds, and dim light. It would dream of mama’s voice. <3 Aww.
Humans are prewired with an operating system, but lived experience and social learning are the software that is loaded to make you human.
Thus, with no stimulus, there would be nothing to “dream” – furthermore, due to the fact that the brain would go through all of the critical and sensitive stages of development without meaningful input, the child would be basically non-functional when they awoke.
They would also be unable to be taught anything.
You can’t miss those stages.
No language, broken stimuli response, no theory of mind – nothing.
What a morbid question, also interesting lol
Colors and blobs, and the sounds of the hospital. Voices. Feelings.
Will that baby grow into 20 year old adult after the coma, or the baby will stay a baby for 20 years?
No memories to map the past, hence no future. Dreams would be empty and that emptiness cannot be defined.
Basically he would miss 300,000 years of human development. From the first of human creation, we have discovered, innovated, passed down through the generations…He wouldn’t get that passed down to him, during the most formative years of his life, which he never experienced. He would probably have animal-level intelligence or something because of no stimulation of his nervous system. And be extremely unstable due to being in a coma for that long. He wouldn’t dream anything, as dreams are built on our experiences… Which he would lack, or some very mild from the womb. I got to acknowledge it would be different, because there will be things in his genes, passed down, that humans 300,000 years ago didnt have.
All it experienced in the womb, so lights, sounds, mothers voice, all the noise the mothers body made around it.
Children don’t appear to “dream” until they develop spacial awareness around the age of 4. Once they can see the world in 3d they start dreaming.
“Psycho man arrested for keeping newborn in coma for 20 years apparently linked to 2025 reddit post that laid out his plan”