Mrs Evelyne E. recalls a confusion between reality and happy hallucinations.

“Well, talking like that, like they were talking to those two girls, I think that – and not talking to me; I thought I was next to them, but I wasn’t involved in their discussion at all. I thought it was weird. I thought, “”What am I doing here? They were doing / talking about their classes, their stuff and I was following. And I thought to myself that it’s true that even people in a coma can hear. So I don’t think I was in a coma, I don’t know. I was just waking up, you know.
But I don’t have a bad memory.
I: So you always think that people, even with their eyes closed, can hear?
E: Yes. And then I got confused because I thought, what am I doing here? But what am I doing here? I don’t know, I didn’t understand.

I: And afterwards, did you understand what was going on with the famous picnic, what it could be, that it was just the people doing their work in the next room?

E: Afterwards, but not at the time, I was convinced that they were having a picnic, then that they were going to eat, then that they were going to leave. But I thought they were partying too long. To me, they were partying; I was at parties.”