>>40670280 (OP)Someone who experienced severe head trauma and suffers from lifelong neurological damage, aphasia, tremors, and loss of limb control even two decades later here.
There wasn't any popping out of a plane for me. It took me more than a month to wake from my coma, and when I did I was still me. I felt like me, anyway. But the me I am changed on a fundamental level. My friends and family all agree I was more or less a different person before the accident. Happier, more enthusiastic and optimistic, outgoing, and incredibly social. I wasn't any of those things after waking up, and I'm still not all this time later. Yet I still feel like the same me I always was even if my personality and character traits are flipped upside-down.
Not really sure how to explain it, but I guess brain damage be like that.