When I was 14 my friend TM and I decided we wanted to know what it was like to lose consciousness - to be knocked out. At his house after school one day we collected a bunch of concrete bricks and proceeded to drop them on each others head behind his garage. It didn't work. With each blow to the head from the falling brick we remained all too conscious whilst sustaining quite serious cranial cuts and bruising. Our initial eagerness to achieve our goal soon left us as the need for self preservation kicked in.
I never wanted to know what losing consciousness felt like after that. TM went on to become an anaesthetist though so the experiment and accompanying suffering wasn't all in vain. I hope he counted that day as seminal! I gained no such inspiration for my future working life.
I've been 'knocked out' a few times since those heady childhood days - but each time whilst in hospital under anaesthetic - not a brick in sight! I've always quietly enjoyed the experience.
It's like magic. One minute I'm flat on my back on a trolley bed joking with the anaesthetist (in my experience all anaesthetists are irreverent, joke-crackingly hilarious people) - the next I'm coming round in a post-op ward talking dribbling gibberish to a bunch of nurses tending to my every need and I'm pain-relieved to the blissful hilt. What's not to like!?
I've been knocked out only once without the help of either bricks or anaesthetic, or drugs or any other external influence including human. This time my body and mind conspired to do it all by their complex, knowing selves. More about that to come ....
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