Regaining Consciousness After General Anesthesia: a Personal Experience

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dc.contributor.authorElzubeir Beshir Taha
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-13T18:49:04Z
dc.date.available2025-10-13T18:49:04Z
dc.date.issued2025-04
dc.descriptionCase study
dc.description.abstractIn 2015 I underwent heart surgery under general anesthesia. Just before I regained full consciousness, I felt I was like a huge spaceship or something anchoring with bolts and nuts to a huge kind of steel base structure. I discovered later that similar experiences in similar circumstances were reported in relevant studies. In similar circumstances patients often describe sensations of floating, heaviness, being "reassembled”, feeling like machines or parts of systems or divine perception and awareness. Evidently the interpretation of these narratives depends on the theoretical framework of one or the other of a variety of theories of consciousness. In this paper an attempt is made to explain this subjective spaceship anchorage mental experience within the theoretical framework of each of these constructs of consciousness. namely; Global Workspace Theory (GWT), Predictive Coding (PC), Integrated Information theory (IIT), Higher Order theories (HOT), and Penrose – Hammeroff Quantum Paradigm (Orch-Or).
dc.description.sponsorshipNapata College
dc.identifier.issn2948-300X
dc.identifier.issn2948-3018
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.53796/nsj416
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.napata.edu.sd/handle/123456789/379
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherNapata College
dc.titleRegaining Consciousness After General Anesthesia: a Personal Experience
dc.typeArticle
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