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Yes. And people with spikes in their head who lived successfully with half a brain have also been documented.

But in general, you probably believe that if I destroy half your brain, you're not gonna make it.

My point is that it's more or less a myth. Intraoperative awareness, such as they describe in that article, is one in which anaesthesia isn't perfect and some come to a little bit. However the example which they give is of dental surgery. That is not a surgery where you can really use full anaesthesia that well.

It's honestly very jealous how liberally you Americans do dental surgery anaesthesia, it's one thing I'm definitely jealous of. During my wisdom tooth surgery, where they had to saw the tooth to pieces, I only got local anaesthesia in my mouth, not even any relaxing medication or gas. Still, felt nothing, the surgeon was really good.

But yeah, that type the describe there is exactly light anaesthesia, and the person saying "they promised me I'm be completely under" just took a nurse's/doctor's assurance as fact.

And cases like that are exactly why there are specially assigned nurses and doctors to keep track of how conscious you are.

It's just that Stephen King wrote a horror scenario where you're perfectly aware and feel pain but can't move, when I'm trying to tell you that there's really not many situations where you could be paralysed and in horrible pain while no-one notices.

The cases in which it did happen and has happened and they describe are generally just a patient in regional or light anaesthesia needing a bit more than they were given. Some don't want to remberer the surgery at all, but keeping a patient actually unconscious (but still alive) is harder than just keeping them "well buzzed".

Idk why some people are afraid of it, I kinda enjoy professionals making me high as fuck.