However, the story of Polish railway worker Jan Grzebski, 65 , is not from a work of fiction, but is a real-life one. Grezebski went into a coma after he was hit by a train in 1988. He woke up 19 years later in April 2007, into a world that had transformed itself from a Communist regime where food lines were common to a world of Big Macs and cell phones.