ANESTHESIA --- TOMMOROW --- MAYBE OOBE?

[riddled_skies]

Hey everybody, I'm going into surgery tomorrow and I am getting anesthesia. I thought it would be a great opportunity to have an OOBE/AP.

Does anybody have any idea how I can achieve this? Techniques?


Any help to make the experience 'that' much better would be greatly appreciated.


Oh, and hurry please, cause the surgery's tomorrow, in the early morning. I'm on the west coast of the U.S. for all you U.K./etc. members (take the time difference into consideration please).

[kiwibonga]

Well, the problem is they might give you sleep medicine with the anesthetics, or the anesthetics will have an effect that puts you to sleep, so it might not work... But what I recommend is doing a visualization as soon as they start to kick in... Just imagine a scenario and pretend you're not on the operating table but in a totally different environment. You can also try a classic exit method, like the ROPE, or imagine that you're swaying up and down...

It's all automatic, as soon as the body loses its sensations, it'll look for sensations within, all you have to do is create them and you'll be in deep trance in no time... Just remember to stay focused and remain "in the now" ; it's very easy to just drift off and go unconscious.

[MisterJingo]

Hey riddled_skies,

A year or so back I had to go in for day surgery and was put under with general anaesthetic. Due to my OBE activities, I was interested to see what or if anything would happen.
The anaesthetic kicks in very fast, usually before you can count to two, and then you are gone. So I'm not sure there would be much time to do anything prior to it knocking you out.
I did experience something while under, I can just remember an orange light. I put this down to at least having some amount of awareness during the procedure, and the orange light was the surgical lights filtering through my closed eye lids (I didn't have any sense of time or anything else during the experience though).

[Gandalf]

In my experience of anesthetics, the drug puts you so far under that there is no conscious awareness.

There is no sense of time so basically you get the injection and next moment you're waking up again (groggily in my experience!). So , I don't really see that you will have much chance to do anything.

I'm interested by MisterJingo's account as he appears to have had some level of awareness while under. I think this is pretty unusual. Perhaps the drug level was lower.

Doug

[MisterJingo]

I'm interested by MisterJingo's account as he appears to have had some level of awareness while under. I think this is pretty unusual. Perhaps the drug level was lower.

Doug

What I experienced was more a recollection of "something" rather than direct experience whilst under the anesthetic. So there is the possibility it was a false memory, or perhaps a memory gained while I was still groggy but coming around.

[DH]

I've had two major surgeries with anesthesia and both times I went out too quickly to even think about trying anything "while under."  It also took me a while to get over the effects when I work up.   It was yucky!   DH

[netzgewebe]

when i got ANESTHESIA i remember falling asleep, but my mum says i started screaming for her, and i don't remember, i guess it is possibly to project while in ANESTHESIA, another kewl thing would be to project to the operating area while in ANESTHESIA 

[riddled_skies]

Eh, it was a no-go. Oh well. I see what you guys meant, it's like POOF-- gone, and then your out.

But that's ok, I had some pretty cool crazy dreams afterwards for a few days while recovering. 

[The Present Moment]

I was given anesthesia for a wisdom tooth removal. The conversation between the doctor and nurses was so boring that I had to intentionally tune out, which wasn't very hard to do. 

[Xenafor]

I was put under anesthetics about a year ago, to get eight teeth removed. All I recall is a dream where I woke up, and the place where they put the needle in on my arm was bleeding profusely, and the nurse was scrambling to bandage it up. Turns out that never happened, as I woke up to them putting a little cotton ball on the tiny little dot of a mark.

Anyway, definitely try to do your best, even just try to get into an LD by knowing for a fact you'll be asleep within seconds.

Michael