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Helloooo you get Locked-In Syndrome aka Pseudocoma. It is when your brain is entirely alert & functioning but you are paralyzed completely except for your eyes. (there is also a variant where the eyes are paralyzed as well). It is hard to tell when someone has it, the only differences between other coma / total paralysis patients being eye movement, sleep/wake cycles, and brain activity. Diagnosis usually takes months of testing and careful consideration. In some cases the lungs are paralyzed as well, making the sufferer resemble a corpse. Full recovery has never been achieved but near-full recoveries have been accomplished through extensive physical therapy in a handful of cases (literally a handful, there have been five). I imagine if this condition is not caught it may be possible to be treated as another life-support patient- i.e your life in someone else's hands, despite having all of your cognitive abilities intact. Thank you for the ask.