What does 意識が遠くなる mean?


I ran into this japanese medical site.
<http://www.kojinkai.or.jp/msc/outpatient-selfcheck18.html>

The title "意識が遠くなる" stumps me. Best I can guess is "Consciousness is fading."
Is that right? "Consciousness becomes far." sounds weird.




The literal translation is indeed "consciousness becomes far". It's a set
phrase meaning "to have lightheadedness", "to have the feeling of
faintness/blackout", "to almost faint", "to be half-unconscious", etc. There
is also 気が遠くなる, which means almost the same thing but has an additional
[figurative meaning](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/64921/5010).




The literal translation is indeed "consciousness becomes far". It's a set
phrase meaning "to have lightheadedness", "to have the feeling of
faintness/blackout", "to almost faint", "to be half-unconscious", etc. There
is also 気が遠くなる, which means almost the same thing but has an additional
[figurative meaning](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/64921/5010).

