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30 Times People Missed Something Big Happening In The World And Were So Confused About It
With 5G melting our brain, it's hard to imagine someone can still stay oblivious to what's going on around them. But they do. Whether they choose to disconnect themselves or not, there are people who live off the grid and seriously fall behind the world. To us strangers, the most interesting part of their detachment is probably its end. The sudden mind blow that sweeps across their entire perception of reality.
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Night Owl 4 years ago
Damn. I wish there was somewhere she and people in a similar situation (like that former prisoner, for example) could ask for help
Vicky Zar 4 years ago
Family, their Doctors, Psychiatrists.... there are so many people that will help you. At least in my country...
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Bama Belle 4 years ago
I think that woman might have been lying. It's very rare for someone to wake from a coma after that long. The ones that do are usually quite impaired.
Miriam Brose 4 years ago
I call bullshit. No one is able to move by themselves after they didn't mive at all for 15 years.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Math can be hard with brain damage. Even if "just" is "a month ago".
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Becky Samuel 4 years ago
I find this story highly unlikely. The number of people who 'wake up' from such an extended coma and go on to be able to be at all independent is vanishingly small.
Donna Harris 3 years ago
My friend dated a man who had been in prison for fifteen years...she went into the store for a coffee and a side of toast for him..he gave her five bucks. She hopped back in the car, handed over the coffee and proceeded to drive. He stared at her for a second...uhhh, change? She laughed and said it was okay he didn't owe her anything she had it covered (it was 5.50~he gave her a fiver)..SHOCK
Kelly Hartle 4 years ago
Even little things can be confusing after a loss of time like that. When I was 7 I had a brain abscess and was in a coma for over 3 weeks. When I went into the hospital the corn in the field next to us had just been planted; when I came out, it was knee high. I thought it was magic.
Lisa Chambers 4 years ago
This is kind of how it feels when you return from a 2 year deployment to a place where civilization doesnt really exist. My biggest wake up was "Why is bottled water so expensive?" and reading the instructions on how to pump gas. But the best one was trying to restart my cell plan and asking how much the data plan was. LOL
Lyone Fein 4 years ago
This is why I don't think we should unplug people. You never know when someone will wake up from a long coma
Jan Olsen 4 years ago
Not true - if she had been in a coma for 15 years, she would not be able to walk.
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
I hope she wasn't lying to get free food/sympathy. It's just like a lot of people nowadays to do somethin' like that xd
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Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
They had to bring his former commanding officer over to convince him the war was over. He did not believe people when they told him. He thought it was American tricks.
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Random Person 4 years ago (edited)
HAHAHAH OOPS! the things that happen when you go on vacation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Dan Buczynski 4 years ago
You'd probably always wonder if you somehow stumbled into an alternate dimension.
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80 Van 4 years ago (edited)
Someone posted asking if he was assassinated but got downvoted and removed their comment. Not everyone is familiar with US politics from the 1970’s, so others may have a similar question. Richard Nixon was not assassinated but resigned due to withholding information about individuals who were stealing political information from the other party. He knew he would likely be impeached, so he resigned instead. His name has come up frequently in the last four years as many drew a parallel between him and the 45th US President and the difference in how they handled similar charges. If this is interesting, check out information on Nixon and the Watergate scandal, but hopefully I saved some people from having to do a Google search.
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Becky Samuel 4 years ago
Me too. Went camping in Europe and completely missed the collapse of the USSR!
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Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
I remember I was at a meeting when 9/11 happened. I'm an English teacher in Europe, and this happened in literally my first month of teaching at a school with primarily Muslim kids. Let's just say that the first two weeks were mostly talking. The kids were incredibly scared that they'd be blamed ...
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
That's actually pretty sad. Why didn't anyone he worked with tell him the war ended?
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
There are still a lot of people who believe that this attack was staged by BLM, Anti-fa and the democrats in a joined effort to give Trump a bad reputation. Which is ridiculous, Trump already had a bad reputation.
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bakkysak09 4 years ago
i saw a comment that said " they should have added a bunch of new contestants after giving them the news"
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JennyLaRue 4 years ago
There was a reality TV show being filmed on a Scottish island, with the expectation that they'd live there for a year and they'd show updates on TV over the year. The show went a bit to pot because they didn't have a great balance of skills and characters, so the show was already being pared back, but some of the people remained on the island till the end of the year. At the end they had to explain to them that Britain was leaving the EU and trump had been voted in as president in the US. (although after the last few years that feels less shocking than it did at the time!)
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Are you sure about this? Seems to have the years mixed up, the people on the island were there years before the voting for Brexit
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Carol Emory 4 years ago
Not away from social media, but I did go in for emergency surgery on a Tuesday morning after suffering a severe gall stone attack. When I woke up, San Francisco was in chaos after suffering a 6.9 Earthquake that collapsed bridges and killed 63 people. I sat in my hospital bed watching the horror unfold on the news.
Ingrid Smith 4 years ago
my husband was in a coma due to covid for about 2 months, and despite what they show on tv, coming out of it is very gradual. He was out from April 5 to early June, 2020. I had so much to tell him when he woke up, not just in our personal lives (which were hell) but the world in general
Pamda Panda 4 years ago
This reminds me of reverse culture shock a bit. I lived in China for four years. When I came back to the US, I had no idea what cell lots were at the airport and it took me a while to figure out what "struggle bus" meant.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Oh goodness.... in my mom's family they still oten only listen to/pay attention to news from back home, so they had no idea for *weeks* that any number of things happened in North America. Took them a while to even figure out Justin Trudeau was the new guy in charge, LOL, and they live in Quebec now!
Grouchy Bear 4 years ago
My ex when on a 3 week camping trip in 1992. The first question he asked me was "What's up with OJ?" He missed the bronco chase and everything. Meanwhile I couldn't get away from it.
bill marsano 4 years ago
Someone with a deep knowledge of TV soap operas can, I hope, provide the details, but the basics are these: In the '70s I was an editor at TV Guide magazine. A writer in our NY office sent in a profile of a woman starring on one of the soaps. She was as the French say "of a certain age"--in her 40s at least. And, critically important, she was German, only arrived in the US years after World War II. So inevitably and hesitantly our writer had raised the question of her experiences in Germany during the war. (Younger BPs should be aware that in those years (1939-1945) Germany was under the sway of Hitler; that Jews, gays, gypsies, the mentally ill and physically disabled were being systematically murdered in a vast network of concentration camps; and thatBerlin, Cologne, Dresden, Hamburg and other cities were razed to the ground by ceaseless bombing raids.) So--what WAS her experience of the war? Well, she said, "our family was on vacation." And TV Guide printed it.
Bex 4 years ago
Nowhere near as big as any of these, but I went to Woodstock '99 with 3 friends (and none of us had phones back then). The 3rd day started with riots, so we packed it up and left early. But we got stuck in traffic, and we lived several hours away, so we didn't get home until close to 9 at night. When I walked in the door (I was 21 but living at home before my Sr year of college), my parents and sister jumped up and started hugging me. They had been watching the riots and problems on tv all day and since we weren't supposed to come home until the next day, they thought we were still there and caught in it all. Meanwhile, we knew nothing about what was going on, and all I wanted after a weekend of drinking, camping, and overflowing latrines with no access to showers, was to take a hot bath and go to sleep.
Sasha Kuleshov 4 years ago
Also remember being a kid while your country is currently having a civil war and everyone is trying to keep you peppy and whatnot so you don't realize everything's going to s**t? ._.
Yettichild 4 years ago
I went into boot camp in August of 2001, so I was there on September 11. They told us about it, but I didn't see footage until we finished in October. When I went in, no one really cared about people in the military unless they were a veteran themselves. When I came out, the whole country was plastered in red, white and blue.
Amanda Reicha 4 years ago
I was working nights and came home from a terrible job which I planned on quitting later that day after 2 weeks. My mom was watching the news, so I sat down to watch with her. When I finally had to go to bed, I had a seizure on the stairway. On 9/11, my seizures that had been controlled for 13 years returned and became resistant to medications.
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leia's emotional cupcake 4 years ago
These are very interesting, but soo sad! I got chills at the first one. So glad they are okay. :)
JennyLaRue 4 years ago
There was a reality TV show being filmed on a Scottish island, with the expectation that they'd live there for a year and they'd show updates on TV over the year. The show went a bit to pot because they didn't have a great balance of skills and characters, so the show was already being pared back, but some of the people remained on the island till the end of the year. At the end they had to explain to them that Britain was leaving the EU and trump had been voted in as president in the US. (although after the last few years that feels less shocking than it did at the time!)
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Are you sure about this? Seems to have the years mixed up, the people on the island were there years before the voting for Brexit
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 4 years ago
Not away from social media, but I did go in for emergency surgery on a Tuesday morning after suffering a severe gall stone attack. When I woke up, San Francisco was in chaos after suffering a 6.9 Earthquake that collapsed bridges and killed 63 people. I sat in my hospital bed watching the horror unfold on the news.
Ingrid Smith 4 years ago
my husband was in a coma due to covid for about 2 months, and despite what they show on tv, coming out of it is very gradual. He was out from April 5 to early June, 2020. I had so much to tell him when he woke up, not just in our personal lives (which were hell) but the world in general
Pamda Panda 4 years ago
This reminds me of reverse culture shock a bit. I lived in China for four years. When I came back to the US, I had no idea what cell lots were at the airport and it took me a while to figure out what "struggle bus" meant.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Oh goodness.... in my mom's family they still oten only listen to/pay attention to news from back home, so they had no idea for *weeks* that any number of things happened in North America. Took them a while to even figure out Justin Trudeau was the new guy in charge, LOL, and they live in Quebec now!
Grouchy Bear 4 years ago
My ex when on a 3 week camping trip in 1992. The first question he asked me was "What's up with OJ?" He missed the bronco chase and everything. Meanwhile I couldn't get away from it.
bill marsano 4 years ago
Someone with a deep knowledge of TV soap operas can, I hope, provide the details, but the basics are these: In the '70s I was an editor at TV Guide magazine. A writer in our NY office sent in a profile of a woman starring on one of the soaps. She was as the French say "of a certain age"--in her 40s at least. And, critically important, she was German, only arrived in the US years after World War II. So inevitably and hesitantly our writer had raised the question of her experiences in Germany during the war. (Younger BPs should be aware that in those years (1939-1945) Germany was under the sway of Hitler; that Jews, gays, gypsies, the mentally ill and physically disabled were being systematically murdered in a vast network of concentration camps; and thatBerlin, Cologne, Dresden, Hamburg and other cities were razed to the ground by ceaseless bombing raids.) So--what WAS her experience of the war? Well, she said, "our family was on vacation." And TV Guide printed it.
Bex 4 years ago
Nowhere near as big as any of these, but I went to Woodstock '99 with 3 friends (and none of us had phones back then). The 3rd day started with riots, so we packed it up and left early. But we got stuck in traffic, and we lived several hours away, so we didn't get home until close to 9 at night. When I walked in the door (I was 21 but living at home before my Sr year of college), my parents and sister jumped up and started hugging me. They had been watching the riots and problems on tv all day and since we weren't supposed to come home until the next day, they thought we were still there and caught in it all. Meanwhile, we knew nothing about what was going on, and all I wanted after a weekend of drinking, camping, and overflowing latrines with no access to showers, was to take a hot bath and go to sleep.
Sasha Kuleshov 4 years ago
Also remember being a kid while your country is currently having a civil war and everyone is trying to keep you peppy and whatnot so you don't realize everything's going to s**t? ._.
Yettichild 4 years ago
I went into boot camp in August of 2001, so I was there on September 11. They told us about it, but I didn't see footage until we finished in October. When I went in, no one really cared about people in the military unless they were a veteran themselves. When I came out, the whole country was plastered in red, white and blue.
Amanda Reicha 4 years ago
I was working nights and came home from a terrible job which I planned on quitting later that day after 2 weeks. My mom was watching the news, so I sat down to watch with her. When I finally had to go to bed, I had a seizure on the stairway. On 9/11, my seizures that had been controlled for 13 years returned and became resistant to medications.
Load More Replies... leia's emotional cupcake 4 years ago
These are very interesting, but soo sad! I got chills at the first one. So glad they are okay. :)
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