Dick Cheney raised plenty of eyebrows with his recent revelation that he had a prolonged dream while undergoing heart surgery in which he was strolling in a beautiful Italian village and drinking coffee.
Cheney’s strange vision does not surprise renowned heart surgeon Dr. Chauncey Crandall, who has had many patients tell him about similar, incredibly realistic dreams they experienced during cardiac surgery.
“We don’t usually talk that much about it, but I’ve had many, many heart transplant patients that when they awakened, they went through story upon story of these vivid dreams,” said Dr. Crandall, chief of the cardiac transplant program at Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., and author of Newmax’s “Heart Health Report.”
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In his new book, “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir,” Cheney said that he experienced a startlingly lifelike dream while unconscious following a high-risk operation in 2010 to save his life with a new cutting-edge heart pump.
The surgery was a success, but afterward he was in a coma for weeks. “I had a prolonged dream,” he writes, “more vivid than any I’ve ever had, about a beautiful place in Italy.”
