Or would the anesthetic negatively affect you in certain other ways that would reduce or eliminate any benefit from a good night’s “sleep”?
(i.e., what Michael Jackson’s doctor was trying to do, minus the involuntary manslaughter)
Or would the anesthetic negatively affect you in certain other ways that would reduce or eliminate any benefit from a good night’s “sleep”?
(i.e., what Michael Jackson’s doctor was trying to do, minus the involuntary manslaughter)
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this is an interesting question, i suspect the answer is no but im here to find out as well 🙂
No, you would not. Anesteshia is not sleep, the brain activity during these two states is different.
Also you don’t wake up refreshed after anesteshia. You wake up groggy, sleepy and overall sluggish. Some people even get nauseous after anesteshia and throw up. (depending on the type of medication used and the duration they were under).Â
No, you wouldn’t. A lot of things happen in your brain during sleep; during anesthesia, brain activity is suppressed. The unconsciousness brought on by anesthetics is not restful. You wake up feeling worse than you started.
I’ve been anesthetized. I vote no, you would not wake well rested. Awoke groggy and damn near immediately fell back asleep. Slept off and on for a few hours while the anesthetic wore off completely. No dreams the whole time. Was cold and peaceful, as I was still in my surgical gown with a thin blanket and nobody bothered me much.
Unconscious isn’t the same as sleep.
I was put under general anesthesia recently and I would have to vote No. I woke up extremely groggy and probably quite grumpy with very little idea of where I was additionally I have no memory of coming out of the anesthesia as well as the recovery room. All I’m able to recall is being brought into the operating room, holding the oxygen mask and breathing deeply a few times next thing I know I’m in a hospital room. I’m not a doctor or in the medical field in any way, but as far as I know being under anesthesia is almost like a coma which is not sleep. (Please correct me if I am wrong or giving inaccurate information)
After anaesthesia I usually feel foggy, disoriented and lethargic. Just not all there.
general anesthesia has to be continuously given and your vitals constantly monitored, and while you do start waking up a few minutes after the gas is shut off, it can take a couple hours to fully wake up especially if you were put under for a long time. its generally recommended you dont do anything important for 24 hours, and the drugs can be in your system for several days.
also, being under GA for more than 5 hours increases danger levels
so, basically, its a bad idea
I think you answered your own question?
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
How the heck am I supposed to go pee 3 times every night? Put me out for 8 hours straight, no matter the method, and the morning is not going to be pretty.
No, but also Anesthesia always comes with risks, doing it habitually would increase those risks.
When you’re asleep your body functions are still working normally, when you’re unconscious they are not able to, some of them are unconscious too, some of them are at higher risk. Things like low blood oxygenation, low or high BP, apnea, choking or aspiration etc.
Your body doesn’t protect itself when unconscious either, for example if you apnea while sleeping, you’ll wake or semi wake to breathe normally. If you’re sleeping in an uncomfortable or painful position your body will move or wake you. If you need to wee your body will wake you. Etc etc, none of these processes happen while unconscious. Which is why when you are anaesthetised you are catheterised, hooked to monitors, and under constant supervision to ensure your safety as much as possible.
Not only would you not get actual sleep, it would be actively dangerous to use Anesthesia as a nightly routine
I felt like shit after my surgery.
I woke up slightly on recovery, but well enough to be transferred back to my ward. A few hours later I was hyper agitated, I could not stay in my bed. My wife (who’s a nurse) told me I had to stay, but I really really couldn’t.
So we went to take a walk in the corridor. We did one tour, I got back in my bed and slept for 4 more hours.
Afterwards I started feeling like human again. Typing this story gave me the shivers again, thinking back to that moment.
Anesthesia: 0/10, would not recommend. And apparently I reacted pretty well. There’s a reason recovery after surgery happens on a ward especially for that. Some people really react very bad to it.
No, because anesthesia is not the same as sleep. Sleep happens to the entire body not just the brain and is literally restorative, healing, and energizing. It’s a time when the body repairs itself. With sleep, humans retain arousability, the ability to feel pain, brain connectivity/interaction, and access to varying degrees of our consciousness i.e. when people say “I heard you leave this morning in my sleep” or the hypnagogic/hypnopompic state. This is why we can dream and dream things from our waking lives.
When under anesthesia, nothing restorative occurs and no natural repairs are made. The body doesn’t heal. The consciousness is essentially shut off. They cannot feel pain, be aroused, they have induced amnesia, and do not dream because there is no consciousness there to perceive or experience those things. The restoration/repair is not only not occurring under anesthesia, but the body is then also still being subjected to whatever procedure has to be done. So when the anesthesia is reversed, the patient feels like shit.
Michael Jackson did it but took wake up medication as soon as he woke up to avoid the groggy feeling
So to answer, no, anesthesia leaves you quite incapacitated, you shouldnt drive that day or make important decisions
I’ve been under a few times and each time I just felt really shitty and tired after. I can Imagine the nap immediately after being nice if it wasn’t for the pain of the actual procedure.
There’s no REM sleep. You’re not asleep, just unconscious.
Ask Elon Musk, who abuses ketsmine on the daily.
His brain is rapidly becoming tapioca pudding.
Every morning, regular as clockwork, around 7am I take a pee and a poop…. trouble is I don’t wake up until 8am….
Insomnia is real but you are much better off finding other ways to sleep than using drugs.