What anaesthetics are revealing about consciousness

What anaesthetics are revealing about consciousness bbc.com

How general anaesthetics work is still not fully understood, but they are revealing clues about the nature of consciousness.

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smalltorch8 days ago

I've been under anesthesia once and it was a wild expirence. It is not like sleep at all. Feels more like a time warp. The main difference is that with sleep you still have some sense of time. Anesthesia feels like teleporting into the future in one blink.

I couldnt stop thinking about how it felt for weeks.

m4638 days ago

depends on the anaesthesia.

Once fully under. I remember being wheeled down to OR, talking, counting down... then... I was waking up in bed in recovery area.

Once had a colonoscopy, and I was awake during the procedure, but there was a "dropout" in the middle, sort of like I lost track of what people were saying and I was "back" as they were finishing up.

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