In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen & his team made medical history They discovered a new realm of consciousness a twilight zone somewhere between life & death They called this the Grey Zone The people who inhabit the Grey Zone are frequently labelled as being irretrievably lost with no awareness & no sense of self The shocking truth is that they are often still there an intact mind trapped deep inside a broken body & brain hearing everything around them experiencing emotions thoughts pleasure & pain just like the rest of us Not quite living & not quite gone they have existed silently in these shadowlands But now through Dr Owen's pioneering techniques we can talk to them
- & they can talk back These shifting boundaries of consciousness have shaken the architecture of our sense of self We have known for a long time that a body does not define a person
- but what if a brain does not define a mind? What does it mean if a mind can exist unharmed within a deeply damaged brain? Through cutting edge research & case studies that are poignant tragic & uplifting Dr Owen maps this inner universe of the self showing us what it means to be alive & human