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

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6. We don't know much of what is going on when we think there is nothing going on.

Mom's real 'life' experiences of what she 'saw and heard' the two times she was 'out' for brief periods were pretty intense and backed up by hospital staff when she asked them about patients in other rooms too. Seems time might be experienced differently in that state too. She said she sorta floated around, in and out of several rooms, and staff validated everything she told them she witnessed.

That's why I kept talking to my husband after he dropped and only took a ragged breath every few minutes while I waited for the ambulance to arrive.