Tipspeople,
Yesterday morning I heard a psychologist interviewed on the public radio show
"The Infinite Mind" who claimed that she'd woken up during surgery and could
feel what was being done to her although she was totally paralyzed from the
drugs and could not tell anyone she was awake.
She now does most of her work with patients who have reported (sometimes
under hypnosis) the same experience. While listening to the interview I kept
having some of the same thoughts that I have about other difficult to verify
subjective experiences (e.g. sex abuse recollections). Is it possible that
this (or at least some of these reports) was not a real event? People tend
to be terrified of surgery.
Is there any data on this particular experience either supporting the
frequency this psychologist claimed for it (150,000 incidents per year) or is
this too new, or has it been otherwise verified by anesthesiologists
themselves who are seeking to eliminate this danger? (Skeptic that I am, I
still know that stuff happens.)
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Nancy Melucci
B&SS Utility Infielder
El Camino College
Torrance, CA
