However, the story of Polish railway worker Jan Grzebski, 65, is not from a work of fiction, but is a real-life one. Grzebski 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.
"When I went into a coma, there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed, and there were long lines of car at gas stations.Now there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin. What amazer me today is that all these people walk around with their cell phones and never stop complaining. I have nothing to complain about," said Grzebski.