Why Does Anesthesia Make Time Disappear? What Happens to Your Brain
General anesthesia makes time disappear because it shuts down the brain’s core consciousness networks simultaneously: the thalamus stops relaying sensory input to the cortex, the default mode network loses its coordinated activity, and the hippocampus stops forming memories. With no information being registered, processed, or stored, there is no subjective experience of duration, you count […]










