Clélia Verdier has vivid memories of giving birth to triplets. She remembers the agonizing pain of labor, the joy of holding her daughters for the first time and the devastation when one died soon after.
The only catch? She was never pregnant, never went into labor and never became a mom. In reality, she was in a medically-induced coma in a hospital the entire time.
Verdier isn’t the first to dream up a whole life for themselves while in a coma, only to wake up and discover that none of it was real.
But for Verdier, 19, from Lyon, France, it was especially complicated to come to grips with the realization that the babies she felt like she had given birth to never even existed.
While she was only in the coma for three weeks, she said the realistic dream spanned across seven years
She explained to the Daily Mail that she ‘made a serious suicide attempt by taking a large amount of medication’ in June 2025, and was placed into a medically-induced coma for three weeks.
She remembers having ‘extremely intense’ dreams and nightmares during the coma, but because she was ‘not aware that she was in a coma’ at the time, they ‘became her reality.’
One dream, in particular, has stuck with her: the one in which she became a mother.
She explained that it seemed so real and she could feel both physical and emotional pain throughout the hallucination.
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