Croatian teenager wakes up from a coma speaking fluent German

[Amethyst]

Daily Mail, 13th April, 2010

Croatian doctors are baffled after a teenage girl who fell into a mysterious coma woke up speaking fluent German.

The parents of the 13-year-old from the southern town of Knin said their daughter had only just started studying German at school and had been trying to read German books and watch German television - but had never been that good in German.

But since waking up the teenager has been unable to speak Croatian and even refused it, but communicates only in perfect German far superior to her mastery of the language she had when she was taken ill.


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Split's KB Hospital director Dujomir Marasovic said they were still trying to find out what caused the mysterious coma and why the girl has apparently forgotten how to speak Croatian.

Marasovic added: 'You never know when recovering from such a trauma how the brain will react. Obviously we have some theories although at the moment we are limited in what we can say because we have to respect the privacy of the patient.'

He said the condition was so unusual that numerous doctors have examined the 13-year-old including German-speaking doctors to try and get to the bottom of the mystery.

Nurse Marika Lenovic, 28, said: 'The case has attracted a lot of interest, not just among the media but also among medical professionals.'

The girl is still being cared for at the hospital and is receiving regular visits from her family although there has reportedly been a large degree of frustration at the fact that they can no longer communicate with each other.

Hospital staff have even had to use an interpreter to translate the teenager's words to her family although apparently when they speak to her in Croatian she does understand - but she cannot respond in anything other than German.

Psychiatric expert dr Mijo Milas who has been involved in the case said: 'In earlier times this would have been referred to as a miracle, we prefer to think that there must be a logical explanation - its just that we haven't found it yet.

'There are references to cases where people who have been seriously ill and perhaps in a coma have woken up being able to speak other languages - sometimes even the Biblical languages such as that spoken in old Babylon or Egypt - at the moment though any speculation would remain just that - speculation - so it's better to continue tests until we actually know something.'

The teenager was only in the coma for 24 hours, and it's thought it may have been prompted by extremely high body temperature.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...#ixzz0nLbahWGQ

[tmt]

Wow, thats an intriguing story. Thanks for sharing it

The mind is so poorly understood, for the most part. We as the species of Humanity are barely scratching the surface of the actual potential that is available. If we could utilize the portions that are locked up in stasis, the result would be amazing.

[Spyder]

hmmm.... :starts thinking a lot:
thanks Amethyst

[Mr Someone]

Damn, I'm from Croatia and I didn't hear about this. I don't watch TV, but I would for sure hear about this by now.
I always wondered how was it being in coma. I was hit by a van but hadn't had the chance of experiencing a coma >.<
I would probably wake up from it and yell: "DAMN that was awesome!".
Peace

[Earthangel28]

It sounds like a Walk In. The original spirit decided to depart and another soul walked in?

[penpencilpaper]

I agree with the post above. During the coma the girl's original soul merged with a new soul, or the first soul left and a new one walked in, one which could speak German but not her original language. The girl would still remember her parents, as the soul carries memories, but it also saves a copy of the memories into the hard-drive of the brain.

She sounds lucky: sometimes walk-ins have to learn how to speak all over again.

Edit: Wait, I guess that's the case isn't it, she'll have to learn how to talk in her first language again.

[Roier]

I posted about it when it was recent news.

http://indigosociety.com/showthread....ingual-Aphasia

nobody cared when I had it, it didn't have a name

[Spyder]

I posted about it when it was recent news.

http://indigosociety.com/showthread....ingual-Aphasia

nobody cared when I had it, it didn't have a name

So you must have a pretty good understanding of it then, eh Roier?
Were you in a coma, and how long did it take you to return to 'normal'?

[Roier]

So you must have a pretty good understanding of it then, eh Roier?
Were you in a coma, and how long did it take you to return to 'normal'?

I had a 3 day coma, I woke up speaking english and I didn't remember spanish, it took me like 48 hours to remember spanish again.

When I just woke up, I was trying to escape the hospital, because I had return from the future to save it from a virus and I needed to read stuff in order to keep my memories from the future, I didn't found anything to read so, most memories were lost, I just remember a 12 monkeys like world.

I started to speak spanish little by little, and well, this days I think I didn't a bad job that mission was accomplished a while ago almost only with my presence and the people I told my tale but apparently I brought interesting communication skills from the future that are very catchy so I hope this will be as bright as I hope it to be still men at work

[Spyder]

I had a 3 day coma, I woke up speaking english and I didn't remember spanish, it took me like 48 hours to remember spanish again.

When I just woke up, I was trying to escape the hospital, because I had return from the future to save it from a virus and I needed to read stuff in order to keep my memories from the future, I didn't found anything to read so, most memories were lost, I just remember a 12 monkeys like world.

I started to speak spanish little by little, and well, this days I think I didn't a bad job that mission was accomplished a while ago almost only with my presence and the people I told my tale but apparently I brought interesting communication skills from the future that are very catchy so I hope this will be as bright as I hope it to be still men at work

Wow that's pretty epic Roier. I've always wondered what a coma would be like, an eternal dream?
Well done for saving humanity Roier

[Roier]

Wow that's pretty epic Roier. I've always wondered what a coma would be like, an eternal dream?
Well done for saving humanity Roier

Humanity will never know believe me I'm human

[Noir]

well, i think will hit my head against the wall now and try to fall into a coma.
That ll do with German...
And then i dont need to memorize anymore boring and stupid tables and grammar rules.
I dont care if i forget spanish or english. At the moment a perfect German is all i need...
Damm it is so difficult

[MYSTIKDRAGON]

Maybe the girl was studyin german for a reason she wasnt aware of at the time, of the new soul that was an "update" of her other one? Would make sense..