Awakening- Would you want to wake up after being gone for 30 years?
@p3halliwel2005 (3156)
Philippines
March 24, 2008 11:05am CST
I have watched this movie called Awakening which stars Robin Williams and Robert De Niro and I was really so touched with the movie. I cried a bucket and I watched it twice..
..It was a movie where in Robin was the doctor treating patients with Post-Encephalitis Disorders. Robert was 11 when he stopped moving..He was alive but his state of mind was gone. He was like a ghost with a body living but not moving. He was awakened by Robin after 30 years. He was 41 now when he woke up..Imagine from 11 years old you woke up at the age of 41..It was just a few days that him and the others including a lady who had the same disorder at the age of 22 and woke up 63 having white hair and wrinkled face. In the end they all went back to their state of unconsciousness and fell back to nothingness... My question now is..If you had this disorder at the age of 11 and you woke up at age 41...all wrinkled up..old..Would you still want to wake up? What if all your loved ones where already gone..either your parents are dead and your husband or wife divorced you when you got sick..you don't know where your kids are 
...In short you have to start life at an old age with no one. Would you still want to wake up? I wouldn't want to wake up if I have nothing left to come back to..It would break my heart so bad it might kill me in an instant.I wouldn't want to be alone Please let me know..what would your decision be?
..It was a movie where in Robin was the doctor treating patients with Post-Encephalitis Disorders. Robert was 11 when he stopped moving..He was alive but his state of mind was gone. He was like a ghost with a body living but not moving. He was awakened by Robin after 30 years. He was 41 now when he woke up..Imagine from 11 years old you woke up at the age of 41..It was just a few days that him and the others including a lady who had the same disorder at the age of 22 and woke up 63 having white hair and wrinkled face. In the end they all went back to their state of unconsciousness and fell back to nothingness... My question now is..If you had this disorder at the age of 11 and you woke up at age 41...all wrinkled up..old..Would you still want to wake up? What if all your loved ones where already gone..either your parents are dead and your husband or wife divorced you when you got sick..you don't know where your kids are ...In short you have to start life at an old age with no one. Would you still want to wake up? I wouldn't want to wake up if I have nothing left to come back to..It would break my heart so bad it might kill me in an instant.I wouldn't want to be alone Please let me know..what would your decision be?3 responses
@theprogamer (10532)
• United States
6 Apr 08
While I've not seen the movie I've heard of the premise before in pop culture and other forms of media. One that comes to mind is Onegai Teacher, but the characters that suffer from Post-Enceph(or a similar ailment) were out for a less amount of time (3 years or 6 years, and other shorter durations throughout their lives). They too had to deal with the changes over a seemingly shorter period of time. Not being with classmates, as they had graduated; watching as other family members move on with their lives (a sister became "older" and got married); and more, but the point is that they too missed out on a lot of life. In fact this is one of the demons they face internally and another cause for further post-enceph (dubbed "withdrawl" or tetai) as they find it harder to face the world.
Would I want to go through this or any other examples of long sleep and waking up, only a bit of me would be curious about it, but no I'd not want to do this. To see people just grow up and live on without my being there... that would be devastating. Knowing other family and friends pass on in my absence... that is something else I'd not want to go through. And depending on the time involved, I couldn't live with missing multiple years of my own life.
@p3halliwel2005 (3156)
• Philippines
2 May 08
Yes it will be so devastating to lose track of years that passed without you in it. Thanks for the response. I appreciate it.
@p3halliwel2005 (3156)
• Philippines
24 Mar 08
lol sorry for giving you a tough time deciding...Watch it it is very nice.Thanks for responding.
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@ayou82 (3450)
• Philippines
24 Mar 08
Yes most definately and see the changes and see what you have been missing from the long sleep. Surprise you how things have changed and know who are people that stand by you and watch you sleep though facial changes will shock you a bit it doesnt matter whats important is that you get to wake up once again knowing that life must have to go on..and rebuild yourself again with the help of your loved ones.
