Yes, this. It's hard to express how disconcerting this is to someone who hasn't experienced a concussion or neurological fainting spell.
I passed out one night alone after an undiagnosed neurological condition resulted in what was, as best we can tell, a seizure. Hit the floor and stayed there for an unknown length of time, because I didn't have a clock handy. The experience of, for want of a better term, "recohering" to find oneself awake and covered in one's own cold urine is very different from the experience of waking up. There's a distinct discontinuity of self that you don't get from waking from a dream.
I still have the distinct sensation that for some undetermined length of time, I simply wasn't there. It was a spiritually and epistemologically haunting experience.
I passed out one night alone after an undiagnosed neurological condition resulted in what was, as best we can tell, a seizure. Hit the floor and stayed there for an unknown length of time, because I didn't have a clock handy. The experience of, for want of a better term, "recohering" to find oneself awake and covered in one's own cold urine is very different from the experience of waking up. There's a distinct discontinuity of self that you don't get from waking from a dream.
I still have the distinct sensation that for some undetermined length of time, I simply wasn't there. It was a spiritually and epistemologically haunting experience.