Consciousness and Anaesthesia (2009)
Have to say my experience of propofol was pretty interesting.<p>It's this milky substance that is injected directly into your blood. The action seems to be super fast and super deep.<p>I remember the anesthetist talking to me while doing it, I think it's standard practice, and I pretty much vanished mid-sentence. As in, not just "I feel like I'm sleeping" that you get each morning or evening in bed, more like "time just vanished" kind of way.<p>Very hard to explain the speed with which you drop from awake to sort of sleeping to "there is no me". The way back is a bit slower but harder to pinpoint, but I knew something was different in the recovery room.