History Main / ConverseWithTheUnconscious

* In ''{{Fite}}!'', [[spoiler:Cub to Lucco]].

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* Given that {{Ayreon}}'s ''The Human Equation'' is about a man in a coma [[spoiler: except that it's really a computer program]], it's not surprising that this trope shows up with Wife and Best Friend and [[spoiler: their affair]].
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* ''{{Monster}}'': Tenma talks to Johann in the hospital twice in this manner. [[spoiler: The first time he happens to be conscious, and [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor takes it upon himself to help the doctor out.]] The second time he remains unconscious. [[OrIsIt Or does he?]]]]

Bob is unconscious, for a prolonged time.

(A certain amount of TruthInTelevision, though not much; apparently unconscious people may hear things, and talking to them is often encouraged.)

** [[spoiler: Hilariously, the only reason Gold did so was because he assumed that Silver wouldn't be able to hear him, when in fact Silver was indeed conscious during the petrification.

* {{Monk}} once spent an entire episode talking to a comatose brother in a family that is being targeted by mail bombs. [[spoiler: He turns out to be the perp]].

* In ''{{Merlin}}'', Gwen speaks to Arthur while he's unconscious after having been bitten by the Questing Beast, telling him she know he's going to be alright because he's going to be king. A few scenes later it turns out he heard everything she said (though admittedly his memory seems a little hazy).

* In the ''DoctorWho'' story "Battlefield", the Doctor cradles the apparently killed by exploding daemon body of [[spoiler: Brigadier, and later Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart]] bemoaning the pointlessness with the comment "you should have died in bed. Obviously he got better, gave the Doctor a tart retort "Really Doctor. Do you think I'd have been so stupid as to have stayed inside?" and went back to his gardening. As for his eventually fate - yeap the Doctor was right. In bed. Aged roughly 125 (after being rejuvenated by accident, and becoming a lord in the Human Dreaming (kind of like Avalon in the marvel Universe).
** Happens again in New Who episode ''The Christmas Invasion'' where the newly regenerated Tenth has hit a bad case of regeneration sickness and Jckie Tyler is sitting with him, trying to get him to tell her what's wrong.
** ''Whenever'' the Doctor does this with a sleeping/unconscious Amy, she somehow manages to hear every word. It was a Time Lord mind meld ''once,'' but only once. It's unknown at this point if it's a side-effect of the [[spoiler: time cracks thing]] that makes her able to remember parts of altered timelines.

Jack is unconscious, for a prolonged time.

Jill goes into the hospital room to talk with him. Possibly to say "HowDareYouDieOnMe". Often prompts deep confessions of things she regrets [[CannotSpitItOut never having said to him]] while conscious.

But watch out! The [[ComatoseCanary curative power of these confessions ]]is mindboggling, though not absolutely perfect. Needless to say, the more embarrassing it was, the more they actually heard.

->''[[spoiler:Leela]], I'm going to keep talking, even if you can't hear me.''

* ''Painfully'' subverted in the movie UptownGirls, when Molly tells [[CreepyChild Ray]] to talk to her comatose dad because she heard it works. She spends the whole day talking to him and it seems to work alright, but [[spoiler: he dies the next morning.]]

->''Leela, I'm going to keep talking, even if you can't hear me.''

* In the ''PokemonSpecial'' manga, this happens in the ''FRLG'' arc between [[spoiler: Gold and Silver, the latter of which is [[TakenForGranite petrified]] at the moment.]]

->--'''Fry''', ''{{Futurama}}''

* In the ''PokemonSpecial'' manga, this happens in the ''FRLG'' arc between [[spoiler: Gold and Silver, the latter of which is [[TakenForGranite petrified]] at the moment.]]

* In Hannah Montana, Oliver tells Miley, "I love you" while she's unconscious in the hospital, although she could hear him. Subverted in that [[spoiler:he was practicing to say it to Lily.]