[jetrink]

Reading the HN title, I was immediately reminded of the Oliver Sacks book Awakenings[1]. He discovered that the drug L-DOPA could temporarily awaken encephalitis patients from a coma-like state. I wonder if the article's title "Awakening after a sleeping pill" is a reference to that book.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awakenings_(book)

[mdoms]

There's a House M.D. episode about this. It's one of my favourite episodes, but if you weren't already following the show it wouldn't be the best one to start on, as it involved Wilson doing a lot of analysis on House's way of thinking which you'd lack context on.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Coma_Guy

[b112]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/

Two incredible actors, and one very touching movie.