What happens to my soul when I’m under deep anesthesia?

[laocmo]

I recently had a minor medical procedure that required about an hour of deep anesthesia. I remember watching a TV monitor and a nurse adding something to my IV then what seemed like immediately I was wondering who took the TV away. I was in a different room, perfectly awake, and an hour had passed. I might as well have ceased to exist during that time. That time was completely gone. Where did my soul go during that hour? With proper monitoring they could have kept me in that state of nonexistence for days, weeks, who knows how long.

I should think if my soul is separate from my body that it would have remained awake and alert during that time and remembered what took place. It makes me think that my so called soul is just my thinking process, my mind, and not some special thing. If they had given me something that stopped my other bodily functions one by one, not just my thinking, I would have technically died. And the missing hour would have extended forever. My soul would still have been as inactive as during the one hour I was out.

Anyone got an opinion here?

 

[Della]

Your soul doesn’t leave your body while you are deeply asleep, why would you think it would under anesthesia? If your soul had left your body you’d be dead. Period.

 

[Robert_Sock]

I recently had a minor medical procedure that required about an hour of deep anesthesia. I remember watching a TV monitor and a nurse adding something to my IV then what seemed like immediately I was wondering who took the TV away. I was in a different room, perfectly awake, and an hour had passed. I might as well have ceased to exist during that time. That time was completely gone. Where did my soul go during that hour? With proper monitoring they could have kept me in that state of nonexistence for days, weeks, who knows how long.

I should think if my soul is separate from my body that it would have remained awake and alert during that time and remembered what took place. It makes me think that my so called soul is just my thinking process, my mind, and not some special thing. If they had given me something that stopped my other bodily functions one by one, not just my thinking, I would have technically died. And the missing hour would have extended forever. My soul would still have been as inactive as during the one hour I was out.

Anyone got an opinion here?

There exists evidence that a part of our unconscious mind is awake and is able to experience the pain even when under anesthesia.

 

[GEddie]

Stays inside you body, but can’t use your head, so your mind goes into an abeyance.

ICXC NIKA

 

[Padres1969]

I recently had a minor medical procedure that required about an hour of deep anesthesia. I remember watching a TV monitor and a nurse adding something to my IV then what seemed like immediately I was wondering who took the TV away. I was in a different room, perfectly awake, and an hour had passed. I might as well have ceased to exist during that time. That time was completely gone. Where did my soul go during that hour? With proper monitoring they could have kept me in that state of nonexistence for days, weeks, who knows how long.

I should think if my soul is separate from my body that it would have remained awake and alert during that time and remembered what took place. It makes me think that my so called soul is just my thinking process, my mind, and not some special thing. If they had given me something that stopped my other bodily functions one by one, not just my thinking, I would have technically died. And the missing hour would have extended forever. My soul would still have been as inactive as during the one hour I was out.

Anyone got an opinion here?

What happens to your soul when you sleep… because that’s all being under anesthesia would do to you.

 

[GEddie]

The soul is not just the mind, although the mind is a dimension of the soul. Soul is really the life.

Under anesthesia, the head cannot be used because it’s cells are drugged, but the body lives on. The soul does not depart, else you’d be dead.

ICXC NIKA

 

[GEddie]

What happens to your soul when you sleep… because that’s all being under anesthesia would do to you.

Not really. Asleep, there is dreaming and subconsciousness, neither of which occur under general anesthesia.

ICXC NIKA

 

[Padres1969]

Not really. Asleep, there is dreaming and subconsciousness, neither of which occur under general anesthesia.

ICXC NIKA

Don’t know about that. I’ve had some trippy dreams under general anesthesia. And I’ve had nights where I didn’t dream at all, like last night.

 

[fisherman_carl]

The mind appears to need a rest when we sleep. Anathesia probably just takes advantage of the bodies natural ability to ‘shut down’ for awhile.

 

[on_the_hill]

There exists evidence that a part of our unconscious mind is awake and is able to experience the pain even when under anesthesia.

I’ve heard this. Some say this is why patients sometimes have an unexpected, unexplained hatred toward their surgeons when they meet them afterward.

 

[jimcav]

Not really. Asleep, there is dreaming and subconsciousness, neither of which occur under general anesthesia.

ICXC NIKA

I agree.

There is a real fade to black under anesthesia that I have never experienced while under normal sleep. A real darkness that only anesthesia can create. As the OP said, it’s like you never existed.

Kind of scary…

 

[Della]

Doctors have found real advantages to putting people into comas for extended periods of time. The body heals itself better when the mind is not conscious of the pain the body is experiencing. Such states of being are not death, i. e. our souls are still with us, we are still alive, we are merely unaware, if we sense nothing and remember nothing of it.

 

[MaryHelp777]

Was it just a dream?

Was it a state your body was in as a result of the anaesthesia, that your mind was awake while your body slept.

Was it a spiritual experience of purgatory or hell, or waiting?

 

[jimcav]

Doctors have found real advantages to putting people into comas for extended periods of time. The body heals itself better when the mind is not conscious of the pain the body is experiencing. Such states of being are not death, i. e. our souls are still with us, we are still alive, we are merely unaware, if we sense nothing and remember nothing of it.

Is being in a coma the same as being under anesthesia?

Is it that same blackness, with no awareness whatsoever, like a feeling or state of non-existence?

I’m finding this all very interesting!

and a little scary…

 

[Della]

Is being in a coma the same as being under anesthesia?

Is it that same blackness, with no awareness whatsoever, like a feeling or state of non-existence?

I’m finding this all very interesting!

and a little scary…

It’s not the same thing, although I do not know precisely how they differ–in medications used, etc. as I understand it. The brain simply isn’t aware–that’s all. It’s not a death-like state. Those who are dying are not in a state of anesthesia or of coma (although they may be in a coma). Death occurs when the brain dies. That is when the soul departs. As long as the brain has life, the person is alive.

 

[GEddie]

Is being in a coma the same as being under anesthesia?

Is it that same blackness, with no awareness whatsoever, like a feeling or state of non-existence?

I’m finding this all very interesting!

and a little scary…

I would imagine so.

While these drugs act upon the head, the mind goes into an abeyance, in a way that does not occur while sleeping (it is the mind, after all, that generates our dreams when disengaged from control of our bodies).

While sleeping, the sense of time remains and one is aware of time passage when awakened. When anesthetised, all mentation is blocked and the time one’s body has slept through just doesn’t register. Your mind just goes black and then comes into the light again.

I’d imagine that induced coma is different from “natural” coma, caused by head-knock and the like, in that the first releases the mind once the drug is removed, while the second would require some time to fully emerge from.

ICXC NIKA.

 

[laocmo]

I should think that if my soul is separate from my body and my thinking mind that it would have remained awake and alert during my deep anesthesia. And it should remember what took place even though my brain‘s awareness was shut down. It makes me think that my “soul” is just my thinking process, my mind, and not some special thing. Is the soul by itself aware of anything?

The awareness a person has is apparently created by some brain process that can be shut off. If the soul does not have some special awareness of its own, separate from the mind, then it would seem when the mind dies the soul is left with nothing but that black void experienced in deep anesthesia. How could such an inactive soul experience any life after death? laocmo

 

[GEddie]

I should think that if my soul is separate from my body and my thinking mind that it would have remained awake and alert during my deep anesthesia. And it should remember what took place even though my brain‘s awareness was shut down. It makes me think that my “soul” is just my thinking process, my mind, and not some special thing. Is the soul by itself aware of anything?

The awareness a person has is apparently created by some brain process that can be shut off. If the soul does not have some special awareness of its own, separate from the mind, then it would seem when the mind dies the soul is left with nothing but that black void experienced in deep anesthesia. How could such an inactive soul experience any life after death? laocmo

Remember that everlasting life is not a wandering ghost, but a restored body.

ICXC NIKA

 

[GEddie]

The soul is not separate from the mind, it generates the mind; but requires the functional head to do so.

With a temporarily nonfunctional head, but a living body, the soul does not generate the mind, but continues to be the body’s life.

ICXC NIKA

 

[Della]

The soul is not separate from the mind, it generates the mind; but requires the functional head to do so.

With a temporarily nonfunctional head, but a living body, the soul does not generate the mind, but continues to be the body’s life.

ICXC NIKA

Yes, it’s like the engine is running but the wiring to the starter has been cut off, to put it in mechanical terms.