14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this week, a rather bizarre and yet totally entertaining video made it online. The footage in question, available below, was posted on YouTube on June 18 and has since been viewed tens of thousands of times.
Here's what it is about: the video shows a woman waking up from surgery thinking that her hands are Pac-Man characters. She even starts moving them around as if playing the game and makes weird noises to go with the action.
Surgeries can leave people pretty confused
The footage was shared online by one other than the young woman featured in it. On YouTube, she goes by the name of Jenn Pacmman.
In the video's description, the woman explains that this video shows her waking up from a leg surgery at University of Utah Health Care in Salt Lake City so confused and still out-of-this-world that she sees her hands as Pac-Man characters.
“After my leg surgery 6.16.15. My hands were the Pac-Man characters,” the woman writes. “Nothing else to explain,” she jokingly adds.
There's no way to tell what exactly was going on in her head at the time, but it looks like one of her hands seems to her Pac-Man and the other a ghost enemy. As the ghost tries to get Pac-Man, the frightened woman breaks into tears.
Luckily, somebody intervenes and moves her Pac-Man hand in another direction to keep it safe. The woman then appears to calm down.
Hallucinations can happen after surgery
According to medical experts, it often happens that patients who have just undergone surgery or who are in intensive care experience hallucinations.
Most of the time, such episodes happen because anesthetics and other drugs that they are given alter the chemistry of their brain and so their mind backfires.
Interestingly, there is evidence that men and women who are over the age of 65 are the ones most likely to become delirious following surgery.
