I remember, a few years back, having surgery and coming out of the anesthesia in the recovery room. I could hear what I was saying to people around me (doctors, nurses, one visitor) and I *knew *I wasn’t making sense. The part of my brain listening to myself was working just fine, but the part responsible for what I was saying was definitely not working. And I couldn’t control the loopy part.
Very strange experience.
Just the other day, my 10 year old son was put under anaesthesia by his dentist, who had to pull several baby teeth that weren’t coming out on their own.
My son had seen an episode of ***Sam and Cat ***in which Sam said all kinds of odd things while loopy from the nitrous oxide. He was sort of hoping he’d do the same. But no… while he was a little groggy when he woke up, he was pretty lucid and didn’t say anything funny.
He was disappointed!
Yeah, after all the hype about nitrous oxide, I was rather disappointed when I had my wisdom teeth removed. The only interesting part was that it physically felt like I was upside down, along with the room. Otherwise I was kind of loopy, but conscious, and it seemed like it took longer than the 15 minutes that it actually took.