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by ThinkingGuy 15 days ago
I've told my family that if I'm ever in a hospital bed due and seemingly unresponsive due to injury or illness, to check whether I'm not trying to communicate (using eye movements, finger twitches, or whatever) in morse code.
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mindcrime 15 days ago
Not sure if you're familiar with this or not, but that concept appears as part of the story in the novel[1] and movie[2] "Johnny Got His Gun". The premise is based on a badly injured soldier during WWI who has lost his ability to speak, see, hear, etc. He communicates by banging his head on his pillow in Morse Code. Many scenes from that movie are interspersed throughout the video to the song "One"[3] by Metallica.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun_(film)

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw

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cenamus 15 days ago
Related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diving_Bell_and_the_Butter...

Wrote a memoir by blinking at the right time going through the alphabet ordered by frequency

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