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Is There Such a Thing as Auto Suggestion and It's Not Magic?
It's certainly not magic it is just people playing and entertaining you on stage okay so I had an operation on my gums and I was sedated and I was conscious through some of of the procedure but here the doctor the doctors talked about me while they were doing their thing. Some drugs work by targeting certain brain systems more than others so it's possible if you are partially aware that you just weren't sufficiently anesthetized because some of the anesthetic agents that we use are not very what we call potent. nitrous oxide is a good example of this a very good anesthetic a very good agent for keeping people asleep once they are asleep but terrible for making people go to sleep in
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