A possible - yet odd - way to project??

[Borgcube636]

In a few days, I'll be getting my wisdom teeth out, so obviously I'll be put to sleep before they begin the procedure. My question is, does anyone know if it would be possible to try and project while I'm falling asleep from the chemical injection?

I'm thinking that the main thing to try is to keep my mind awake while my body is falling asleep. But i'm not sure...would the chemicals prevent my mind from staying awake too?

Has anyone ever tried something like that before?

[Astir]

Nothing has ever shut me down like being anesthetized. No dreaming, no self...for one of the first times in my life to my recollection.

I did wake up laughing harder than I've ever laughed, they had to put me in another room for a few minutes because I couldn't walk I was laughing so hard. All I remember is being bent over in a chair, fits of laughter and nothing but the color yellow. I was in quite a haze the rest of the day. I'd suggest, if anything, try it as soon as you're home if things are still fuzzy. I was able to tap into some of my talents later that day, to an immense degree.

[Synergy]

Are you being totally put under? As in general anesthetic?  Or are you being given conscious sedation? 

'usually' they use conscious sedation.  They inject a drug like Vallium, or more commonly midazolam which produces an amnesia effect.  You won't remember anything but you WILL be conscious.  I wouldn't think that it would be possible to induce an OBE from this state, as you are fully conscious anyway.. and you will be responding to the dental surgeon when he asks questions etc...

If you are one of the few people they use general anesthetic on,
As for general anesthesia, what I found out when I researched this awhile back is that being put under, the drug supresses REM sleep, which is why nobody ever remembers dreaming.  Its still unclear what exact part REM plays for an OBE to be initiated, though Charles Tart concluded that there was no specific discreet state that an OBE must occurr in (from data collected from his experiments in the 1960's)  OBEs an occurr in REM but also outside of REM as found by several of his subjects EEG studies.  There HAVE been people who have had OBEs and NDEs during surgery and remember seeing the surgeon working on them.  So I believe its possible.  Maybe concentrate on intent of an OBE as you fall under...

[Job]

Also, dentists, I think, use anesthetics which simply have the effect of numbing the sensation of pain. Tooth extraction doesn't seem 'big enough' for conscious-altering anesthesia--like heart surgery.

[SilverSlider]

I highly doubt you could keep your mind awake while you're being put under...everyone tries, no one succeeds.

Like Astir mentioned, afterwards is a different story. I woke up basically tripping. I was led to different room (no recollection) and I sat on a doctor's type bed that you sit on and watched non-existent ants walk around a waving counter across from me. I actually had to ask my dad if I was dreaming or not. A short time later  though I just closed my eyes for a few minutes while my dad ran into a store to get something and saw white sentences in sanskrit (I don't know sanskrit), to which I firmly believed I understood at the time.

[Synergy]

Also, dentists, I think, use anesthetics which simply have the effect of numbing the sensation of pain. Tooth extraction doesn't seem 'big enough' for conscious-altering anesthesia--like heart surgery.

They do use conscious sedation.  Its not like general... you are actually awake, but you do not remember.  Phobic patients often use conscious sedation.  (I'm one of them) for even routine dental work like fillings.