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Originally Posted by nekokami
I did actually faint once. It was very embarrassing. I think I was dehydrated. I was out long enough to have a short dream (though I think the actual time was under a minute) and woke up on my friend's kitchen floor very confused... I think I said "What am I doing here?" which worried my husband and friend quite a bit-- they worried I had hit my head or something. But it was just that I had had a dream about being somewhere completely different.
Last thing I remember prior to the faint was knowing I was about to go out, and setting down the kitchen implements and vegetables and sort of crouching toward the floor to lessen the fall.
Odd experience. I think it was about 20 years ago now.
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I've fainted twice. Once was when I was late for an autopsy, ran into the room without checking to see who was on the table, and passed out when the other pathologist flipped the face back over the skull, and I saw it was a friend of mine from elementary school and junior high. I'm told I just went stiff as a board and fell backward.
The second time was when I threw back the bed curtain expecting a live patient, and found a corpse with no face (she had been in a car accident and her face/head got caught outside the car window and dragged). Again, not what I was ready for .... and the result for me was night-night time.
I'm generally fine in a crisis .... it's those sudden nasty surprises that tend to send my brain into overload.