Paper Book - The Other Side of The Curtain – Recovering from Deep Coma

The Other Side of The Curtain is an amazing non-fiction story of coma survival after a motorcycle accident! Instead of a fatal statistic, this book delivers messages of prevention at any stage, hope, tenacity, and triumph. It’s also an introduction to the power of dreams. Her voyage to The Other Side of The Curtain was announced by a premonition dream.

The Other Side of the Curtain – One Life Assessed from Dreams Post-Analysis

• The story of a mother’s miracle when she gave life twice to her daughter declared dead after a motorcycle accident.

The author loved living in the South of France and studying French literature and poetry, until the riots of May 1968. After one year of torments, consequences of the political events of May 1968, she was pronounced dead after a serious motorcycle accident in 1969. Yet, she entered a three-month coma. A couple of years later, she moved to the United States, trying to forget about it. But there are things in life that one cannot forget, especially with the guilt of still being alive when meeting or hearing about families of teens who died in accidents.

Eventually she acknowledged what she once wanted to disregard from her life. Driven by the urge to understand her recovery, “Why did I survive the way I did?” became her secret search. She found Seven Elements. Some of those elements started in her early childhood, orientating the two first parts of this book as a case study and a memoir at the same time.

While Seven Elements demystifies her survival and total recovery within a scientific breakdown, seven dreams illustrate further her narrative. Bijaoui post-analyzed the seven dreams narrated in her book, including the premonition dream of her accident and of her voyage to The Other Side of The Curtain. The creative integration of her dreams to research fuses a dimension of surrealism into science.

Book themes:

• Traumatic brain injury
• Surviving death experience
• Coma
• Dreams
• Psychology & psychoanalysis
• Wellness & medicine
• Resilience
• Historical context – Violence of May 1968 in France
• Cross-cultural settings – South of France and Los Angeles
• Emotional energy
• Metaphysics & spirituality