Locked-in syndrome: When you're paralysed, but still aware

The 2007 movie The Diving Bell And The Butterfly is based on the memoir of the late French Elle editor-in-chief Jean-Dominique Bauby (played by Mathieu Almalric, left) who developed locked-in syndrome as a result of a stroke in 1995. — Handout

To understand pseudo-coma, let’s talk about coma first.

If someone is in a coma, it means that you are in a state of prolonged loss of consciousness.