Used mostly in medical situations to describe sedation or anesthesia effects.

Medical Context

'Narcosis' is deeper than sleep; it's a medically-induced lack of awareness.

Not Just Sleep

Refer to 'narcosis' when extreme stress or fatigue leads to a dazed condition.

Emotional Overwhelm

This narcosis happens naturally, not from drugs but through mental exhaustion.

Not Drug-Induced

'Narcosis' in diving refers to disorientation due to breathing gases at depth.

Diving Hazard

Remember, narcosis can cause confusion and a false sense of well-being.

Narcosis Symptoms

 It makes you loopy; the deeper you go, the loopier you get. You don't want to drive drunk, you don't want to dive drunk. So that's a real big problem. And of course, the third problem is the one I found out the hard way in Palau, which is the bends. One thing I forgot to mention is that to obviate the problem of nitrogen narcosis -- all of those blue dots in our body --

Richard Pyle: Exploring...

 can be. It can feel tranquil, almost womb like, until you hit a problem, which in free diving can result in oxygen starvation, nitrogen narcosis, decompression sickness,