Nick Rhodes

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.

English Musician

Parker Palmer

I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power.

American Educator

Haris Pasovic

I think we are slowly killing liberty, creativity, intelligent thinking; it's as if we are being led into a world that is like a huge shopping centre, with a sort of anaesthesia about everything except the choice of goods in front of us.

Bosniak Director

RuPaul

I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the status quo, and I would always fight it. It always felt like I was on an operating table and the anesthesia never worked.

American Entertainer

Khaled Hosseini

A doctor in a hospital told me that when the mujaheddin were fighting in the early Nineties, he often performed amputations and Caesarean sections without anesthesia because there were no supplies.

Afghani Novelist

H. L. Mencken

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

American Writer

Michael Keaton

Anesthesia is quite remarkable. It's lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.

American Actor

George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Irish Playwright

Meg Ryan

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

American Actress

Antonio Tabucchi

Italian Writer

Used in contexts of medical procedures to describe inducing insensitivity to pain.

Medical Settings

Often specified as 'general' or 'local', indicating the scope of the numbing effect.

Types Specified

Administration implies it's actively given by a specialist, not something that occurs naturally.

Administration

Refers to reduced awareness, sometimes complete unconsciousness due to anaesthesia.

Impaired Consciousness

Patients experience a recovery period as the effects of anaesthesia diminish.

Recovery Period

It can be associated with fear or anxiety about surgical procedures.

Anxiety Association

 so I didn't want them to put me under anesthesia, or whatever you call it. And so they sewed my face up. And then they had to straighten out my nose, and they took these rods and shoved them up my nose and went up through my brains and felt like it was coming out the top of my head, and everybody said that it should have killed me,

Anna Deavere Smith: Four...

 that we aren't feeling enough as a culture right now. There's this kind of anesthesia in America at the moment. We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world.

Chris Jordan: Turning...

 And then I was back, drowsy and disoriented, but definitely there. Now, when you wake from a deep sleep, you might feel confused about the time or anxious about oversleeping, but there's always a basic sense of time having passed, of a continuity between then and now. Coming round from anesthesia is very different.

Your brain hallucinates...

 He survived, and when I asked him what was going through his mind as he faced death, he said all he could think about was needing to live so he could be there for my brother and me, and this gave him the will to fight for life. When he went under anesthesia for emergency surgery,

There's more to life...

 so doesn't kind of wake up she's a big boy yesterday there you go that one we're putting the lubricant in her eyes because in under this anesthesia her eyes will stay open so he's mainly for protection and to keep them nice and moist perfect the hood will help to

Taking DNA from a...

 that we currently observe and measure like an EEG this sounds a lot like the visual system but had a much grander scale so I introduced you again to that heretical question let's go back there and let's use anesthesia as another

Asking where consciousnes...

 replace damaged livers and kidneys, and many other life-saving operations. And each year, new anesthesia techniques are developed that will ensure more and more patients survive the trauma of surgery.

How does anesthesia...

 We recognize affection. Courtship is courtship. And then we ask, "Are they conscious?" When you get general anesthesia, it makes you unconscious, which means you have no sensation of anything.

What are animals...

 When I woke up from anesthesia, groggily I remember my mom and my wife's face. And they said everything had gone well, but even better, they said that my recipient was at the hospital.

Donating a Kidney to a...

 when we fall into deep sleep without dreams, or when we go under anesthesia, and it is what we regain when we recover from sleep or from anesthesia.

Anaesthesia