A British man in a 23-year-long coma was actually conscious the whole time.
Rom Houben was involved in a car crash over two decades ago and medical experts have always believed he was in a coma and his consciousness "extinct".
However, it has been discovered he was actually just paralysed and could hear everything going on around him.
Three years ago a breakthrough in technology revealed he was functioning almost normally.
He said: "All that time I just literally dreamed of a better life. Frustration is too small a word to describe what I felt."
The former martial arts fan is unlikely to leave hospital but can now communicate with friends and family and read books through a specially-adapted computer.
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