Is there a real "truth serum"?
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Is Your Spinal Cord a Wonderland?
Sodium, theopental and other related barbituits that be used as truth serum. slow down part of your brain that handles higher order functions. As a result it's much more difficult to perform high functioning task like concentrating on a single activity. It would probably be difficult for you to do some higher order math. You encounter stuff like this, to this difficulty concentrating when we're falling asleep,. We earned it, this time liminal state between wake and world of the sand man.
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