While patients lay unconscious under anesthesia, their brains kept decoding stories and preparing for what came next

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5. Thank you e. ...

This explains a lot of what I went thru after my last two surgeries when I thought I was losing my mind.
I had received fentanyl in the ER just prior to the surg. Hallucinations and bad dreams followed along with a 6-month long loss of short term memory.
Living alone and being responsible for my own care and finances was a nightmare of its own.

I had 4 bills to pay laying on my desk. Paid 2 of them twice and the other 2 (one being my home-owner ins.) not at all. Fortunately, I live in an area where we all know each, and my ins. agent got my home-owner's ins. reinstated after a 2 yr. lapse after calling one of his friends who backed up my story.
Now, the agent and his sec. have me on a personal watch and my payments are on auto-pay. I have added them to my AiDs (Angels In Disguise) list. Will not go into all the other dumb crap that I did other than to say I did keep the dog fed; but only because he kept reminding me.

And now, dear erronis, thanks to your post, I am adding you to my list of AiDs-- I can now say, 'it wasn't my 'brain'; it was the med. I feel exonerated!