I dreamt about my Grandmother and I was watching from a split rail fence. And I saw my Grandfather walking through a field and then my Grandmother walks up and joins him and they walk away hand in hand. And my thought jeez they were so in love! The next day the place where my grandmother was in the nursing home. The nurse told me she hand passed away. Then I said OMG that’s what that dream was about! My Grandfather came to get my Grandmother!
That is quite a poignant story. Did you find it healing or helpful? While I am sorry for what you had to experience, I am grateful for you sharing your story 🙏
@@MedicalSecrets I felt she had her grandparents saying “ goodbye “, together. Holding hands 🙌. Beautiful. I hope it too. was a defining moment for her , of a positive nature 🌟🧡🌟🧡🌟🧡🍁
Doc I wish you were in Australia. I have chronic pain and came off 30 years of EXTREMELY high dose Morphine first injections (90mg a day) with morphine syrup (400mg per10ml) dose. All done under a pain specialist. 2 years ago came off it all slowly over the two years. I’m now having just 20 mg per day. And have learnt and am learning other ways to deal with the pain. I genuinely had tried most things over the 30 years. But had read about the Ketamine “experience” and how it helps so many. But doesn’t seem to be done Much in a safe environment or even available here in Australia. But learning so much from your videos and livestreams. Thank you for all you do. Hopefully more medical doctors will look at what you do and help others around the world. Loads of love and thanks Leisa Western Australia xx
Last Friday, I had my gallbladder removed. I was semi-awake, and the surgeon told me I had cirrhosis. I started having a flashback as 4 years ago died from cirrhosis and organ failure. I evidently started cry and shouting that I was going to have a liver transplant. I have ptsd, anxiety and depression . I remember none of this. My brother who was in recovery with me told me 3 days later. The anesthesia team were the only one's who read my chart and they gave a little injection of vercette to stop the flash back and calm me down. The surgeon, I guess didn't see that portion of my chart and didn't know what to do and I remember none of it.
REIKI! Both the practitioner and the patient basically see the patient's situation from a higher perspective. Often, Reiki is simply an enhanced relaxation technique that allows the patient,s body to heal itself without the usual anxiety laden mind chatter about... healing. But here,s an example where Reiki took ME (as the practitioner) to another level. A friend was suffering from a persistent dry cough and relaxation did help, but for no reason in particular, he started talking about his allergies and sinus problems. He was using a neti pot for sinus irrigations. I was suddenly electrified by one urgent question, ''Do you boil the water ???''. He said he didn't need to because he was using well water (!). Long story short: the water was home to a healthy colony of amoebae. The man survived.
Your sweet, soft, kind and caring voice could put me to sleep 💤. I love your voice! I think I would like to hear your voice as I was being anesthetized.
What a great video! I've always thought about each of these states of mind but the way you explained each one and how they're connected made me understand them even better. thanks!
You can control time. The hardest part to get used to with consciousness is giving up control. Like being a passenger in a car. Relax and enjoy yhe ride. If you can't control something put yourself somewhere that you can (if ya know what I mean)
I want to be able to SLEEP in an Anesthetic state each night. To me, it is the most PEACEFUL, RESTFUL Sleep. No nightmares or weird dreams , just peace 😊😅😂
I've always been fascinated by the subconscious states and spend a lot of time trying to access or study them. I think this is such a cool series hearing your experience and expertise! ❤ Thank you!
I just had a "aha" moment. Every time I have surgery the anesthesiologist always always come in and introduce themselves and ask me all different kinds of questions. I always thought why are they asking things that have nothing to do with the surgery. I now know it's because they're trying to figure out where my mental state is at and how I'm feeling. Thank you I get it now!
Saw a headline at lunch today about a recent research paper showing recovery within the brains of former alcoholics that was unexpected; sounds like it may be related to that 5th state of consciousness you mention.
If I lived in California I would go to your clinic in a heartbeat. I would love to sit down with you and just talk. You are the most compassionate dr I know.
I just want to thank you for your video’s. You videos helped me to communicate with my Anesthesiologist and hospital staff last Monday, 11/6 before my Cervical Formaminotomy surgery. Before every major surgery I’ve had I kept getting these vivid memories and nightmares about being put under as a toddler and kicking the doctors and OR staff. The terror and fear comes back from 46-49 years ago when I was being put under for a club foot correction surgery. You helped me understand that I have medical ptsd. It helped me to come out of anesthesia thinking I’m playing Pokémon Go and at peace and not agitated. I realized because of your video’s I need to be informed in detail about what is going on or what the procedure is going to entail knocks my anxiety down from a 10 to near to zero. I was able to thanks to RUclips watch a video of my surgery with someone my age and have in the same area of the spine being operated on. I just want you to know how much you’ve helped me out and made my surgery and hospital stay much better and anxiety free. FYI my overnight nurse was freaking out because my HR was 120 and BP at the lowest was 78/44 and I was asymptomatic. Talking away. I had this same thing in 2009 with another orthopedic surgery. You helped me to be able to communicate to my nurse and not freaking out because of her concern and to effectively communicate this is a typical baseline after major surgery. Which I also mentioned to my surgeon and anesthesiologist and anesthesia nurse. Since I live in Hawaii! Mahalo nui loa and you made and do make a difference!
All of the above and more, while holding space and remaining objective and interacting in the way of want to be interacted with. As best I can. Going within and not dismissing my own intuition, while perceiving from every possible angle and not giving away my power or selling out when things started to get uncomfortable. And tbh when I wanted nothing more than to not be here anymore, I made that happen, and why I'm still here I don't know, so maybe it was the depression that wanted to end and sever from me to but here I am, off meds that I've been taking since a car crash in 95
I had Autoimmune Encephalitis 23 years ago. Suffer unrelenting Anhedonia & Depression these days that I believe is traced back to my AE. MRI, Spinal Tap, Blood Tests and everything is normal these days. I’ve tried nearly every med in every class of Psych Meds. Ketamine. Psylocybin. ECT. TMS. Fasting. Various Therapists. I’m hoping I don’t have to end up 6 feet under to find relief.
WOW! Dr. K…. This is quite a deep conversation, today. Dreams, and quite impressionable, upon remembering the dream, upon awakening. Well Stated. Dr. K 🍁🧡🌟🧡🍁. Thanks for sharing this very interesting surgical history. Kindly, artchem1
MDMA coupled with Psyocibin mushrooms CURED my depression and suicidal thoughts !!! I had no idea that when stressed I was having FLASHBACKS of a near drowning when I was 2. I went back to that day and became the day I DIDN’T drown, my family was there and I was in my beloved Hawaii. That was October 27th 2018, I was 60 years old. I call it my re-birthday.
What about the state of FLOW? (see the study and writing by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi). I have experienced this a couple of times and was profoundly moved. One of my conducting teachers answered my question about his experience with flow, after I told him of my experience, and he said he entered that state every time he took a preparatory breath in the gesture that precedes the start of the group sound (a choir, normally).
My experience of ketamine treatment- 7 injections p, increasing dosage each time- for depression without ANY support was uncontrollable, all day crying for a month. The first week was so wild, I work appointment-based and I’d start crying within 20 minutes awake and I cried sun-up to sundown UNLESS I was physically with a client or friend, I would stop crying and operate normal by perception and start crying 5 min after being in the car alone. How it happened- I didn’t know my insurance wouldn’t cover meeting their therapists until I had already begun treatment. In interview I stressed I had only met my new therapist once and she didn’t constitute the “follow-up” plan box they checked anyway. Hugely, at that point we didn’t know but in the following months I finally got accurately diagnosed with depersonalization disorder (DSM calls it DPDR) and no one with a trauma disorder should be given ketamine in a room all alone and sent home to be in a room all alone.
I am so sorry to hear about your experience, but I greatly admire your vulnerability in sharing. You are absolutely spot-on that we need to use powerful medications like ketamine very carefully, under close medical supervision. I hope you have found healing since then 🙏
@@MedicalSecrets thank you but no I haven't found any relief whatsoever, mental health professionals don't seem to understand depersonalization disorder and so many of times they have just been bad or incompetent at their jobs leading to various IOP and inpatient programs not being what was described to me. I know I need heavy duty trauma work, I can identify the difficult experiences I didn't process that triggered my DPDR, but I am constantly bombarded with heavy duty stuff and family emergencies so I'm constantly under too much emotional stress to do any trauma treatments.
Fascinating subject! I suppose lucid dreaming would be a form of REM sleep but I believe elements of mindfulness are also involved. From what I understand lucid dreaming has potential for therapy including overcoming phobias. In my case I’m already having nightmares about my upcoming MRI. Would love to learn how to control that fear.
I'm not a fan of having MRIs done either, but if they have an upright machine option-> go with that. However if not, have someone come with you (like drive you to, help with paperwork and drive you home) and, well, I can't outright say it, but use a tiny bit of whatever it is that helps you with sleep and/or anxiety. Once with the machine tech, they should provide you with earplugs but they should have access to washcloths as they are just the right size to fold and place over the eyes and help position the head for brain and spine imaging and you can ask for them to muffle your ears with the washcloths (this would only apply if they need your head or spine kept still).
I’ve heard of the open core MRIs but not the standing. Thanks for the heads up! 😊 I’m not too far from Boston. Maybe there? When I needed an MRI for my brain I panicked, had to stop and reschedule with a sedative. I will be needing yearly MRIs (small meningioma) and I’d rather not have to ask family to have to take off work for this. Tomorrow’s MRI is for my spine. I’ll be taking two diazepams 30 minutes beforehand
@@Christynmaine the meds should definitely help, and as long as you know how your body and brain reacts to the meds (being able to drive safely with having appropriate reaction time) then you _should_ be fine. You can typically ask for a washcloth to go over your eyes as a sort of eye mask and most places offer ear plugs. Being as it's a MRI checking on the status of your spine, you can ask for the technician to place folded up washcloths as a further layer to muffle the sounds going in your ears. Of course (if you're anything like me, I'm quite weird due to extreme hypersensitivity as a result of severe chronic pain), you may still feel all of the banging, beeping and clanging noises, but meds should help temper (alter them enough to not be as bothersome) those sensations.
OH MY GOOOODNESS!! 😊💖 I LOVE this video share from START to FINISH! ✅ *THANK YOU* for honoring your True Self💝 (& ALL!) by putting your years of training, the knowledge you've attained, as well as experiential Wisdom into practicing in a Holistic manner which allows/supports the body in returning it's optimal & Intended state of being!💖💖💖
I had a TURBT surgery 2 weeks ago. I woke up trying to turn on my right side, and I could hear people saying no,no, and grabbing me to put me back on my back. I didn't remember anything more until I woke up in recovery. Would this possibly be from the anesthesia I had? It was an hour and a half sx with my legs up. I had general plus a paralyzing agent because my doctor did not want me to move because the tumor was close to the obtoratur nerve. My recovery was over 3 hours. My glucose was 213, and I am not diabetic. I really didn't feel good. I have had sx before, and the recoveries were fine. I do know this is the first time I had propofol, egg based, I am allergic to soy. Any thoughts? Thank you for taking the time to read my question.
It is an interesting story and I was trying to understand your experience, & I am thinking maybe you think that - Sx- is an abbreviation for surgery. I was taught that -Sx-is an abbreviation for symptoms.
@@chrisstepleton4761 Thank you Chris, that is fascinating. I’m a retired advanced credentialed nurse and sx always meant symptoms in my education. I worked on mainland and in pacific rim. In my decades of hand written charting, this was the official hospital abbreviation everywhere I worked. May I inquire where/region even, you have found this is the standard abbreviation?
Near death experiences in Christianity are some of the best stories you could hear, much like your experiences and there are massive amounts of books, youtube and their stories are so, so powerful and the stories and descriptions often radically change the person to the nth degree. It's wonderful that you as an anesthesiologist can go that step further and do integrative medicine. If and when I can come for a visit I will to definitately come see you in san fran then come back to Scotland. (I lived in US for 20 years, so to me they are as much my people as the Scottish are).
Out of body exp was mentioned, here's my story I had that for years til I found how to stop it, last few times it's happened I had been fighting to stay awake fighting sleep on graveyard shift so as I rested I suddenly left my body and away from my body and as I went to stand by my body I got sucked in but was completely paralyzed and left my body again, after a 3rd attempt to get back in I was able to move and now I know that as were going to sleep our senses leave us such as hearing and so on and eventually some type of normal temporary paralysis occurs as we sleep so now I know if you are going to sleep then sleep cuz if your brain is awake when your body is going to sleep you might have out of body exp. Now it hasn't happened to me since as I know what causes it. As I had that I was a sleepwalker as well but I guess I'm cured of that as well, both run or ran in my family and my grandma warned me, told me "if you ever find yourself paralyzed and can't move when waking up you must try and move or else you will die." I thought nothing much at the time (I was 12) and didn't start having those occurrences til I was 16.
Great live stream! I learned so much!! I’m still waiting on a date for my eye surgery, my eye doctor called me last Friday and gave me an update, he said they are trying to get all of the credentials together! I really enjoy donating to the anesthesiologist foundation, since it was hard for me to college because of my cerebral palsy,, I really wanted to be a anesthesiologist physician, do you think my anesthesiologist can film me going to sleep? I would love to see that! You rock man! You been hocking loogies lately?😂! I look up to all Anesthesiologist and CRNA it takes a special person and skill to be a CRNA or anesthesiologist and you’re one of them!!
Hi Dr. Kaveh! Just want to say your videos are looking really professional. Are you using a new camera? If so, can you tell me what brand of camera you’re using and what kind of lens? Thanks.
Thanks I really enjoyed this video altered states of consciousness are so incredibly paradoxical and interesting!am I waking into another dream when I awaken?I'm considered nuerodiverse I have a mental health diagnosis and throughout the years tried a host of different psychotropic medications none of which helped me personally or socially.when I finally tried pscylocyben mushrooms in a self guided therapeutic way it worked better than any prescribed meds ever did!it seemed to have an entraining affect that was lasting whereas with the other prescribed medication there was a fallout that I would have to re adapt to a rubber band snapping back.when I used mushrooms I used solfeggio frequency music.i kept thinking deprivation I'm not sure what altered state that arouses but I know that deprivation can also be transformative as there is nothing to control.
my experience of Chemo was just such an experience of healing. It awakened my empathy and I had to learn how to deal with this once suppressed ability.
Hello, I am so sorry to hear about your experience. When you say retrograde amnesia, are you referring to something that happened in the operating room?
After surgery, both times, I have NO MEMORIES of arrival to the hospital, going home or 5 days after surgery. My memories were wiped out from the time I left home until 5 days later. What happened???
@@nurshark10 You sound like my late sister! She was very sensitive to the medications used during surgery. Her memory wasn't wiped out for quite as long as yours, but she was very loopy for a couple days and could recall almost none of what she said or did during that time span! And she did strange things like putting a half-eaten sandwich in her nightstand drawer, and then being totally disgusted when she opened the drawer and saw the half-eaten sandwich in there!!😁
@@MedicalSecretsI have joined this thing called discord Doc .. you mentioned we can ask you questions I just shared my experience on here but I don’t think it’s been posted 🙄🤷🏻♀️
Ive had a few dreams where i was aware it was a dream and had control. Ive yet to have a bad psychedelic experience even with dmt it was either nothing, a story, or just a beautiful experience
My $.02: There are people for whom modern society simply does not work. The scope of possibilities for our minds is much broader than we usually think, but this is not a guarantee that there are good outcomes hiding in there. There might be. There might not.
(And I think trust in guided experiences is probably appropriate in many cases, but has potential for deep harm. It relies on an assumption of a shared mental landscape that, when violated, means you might be gas-lighting someone who is in a maximally vulnerable state. Yes, the risk of unguided experiences is real. The question is whether it's more likely in a given case that one will lose oneself vs. be misled by another. Absolutely no ill intent is required for the latter. We're comparing risks, not comparing risk vs. safety.)
I don't remember my dreams. Unless they are bad. Or if I'm reading and have hallucinatory micro sleep. I will think that whatever I hallucinated is part of what I am reading. It makes me bonkers as I search for what I thought I had read. Sometimes it was really good.
My cousin has been suffering from depression and bipolar disorder for decades. She tried Ketamine (in a clinic with excellent guidance), but unfortunately it didn't resolve her depression. Neither has any other medication. She is unable to work and barely able to care for her family. Are there more therapies being developed now for unresponsive depression?
Reminds me of Naomi Judd. Her depression was extremely drug resistant! She was a RN and could explain so articulately what was going on in her brain, and she tried so many therapies and medications, but NOTHING seemed to help.💔
Dr. Help me please, my 27 year old son is addicted to alcohol to cope with depression and anxiety, he says it numbs him from the suffering what do I do? Where do I take him? Who do I talk to?
With all respect for your wisdom, intelligence and generosity, I ask you to stop asking us to support you 'after a long day in the operating room'. This is an effort to induce guilt - 'how could you ill-treat me after all I have done for you?' - a gaslighting, as currently said. Perhaps you have not had guilt based expressions of gratitude forced from you in your lifetime, but those of us who have experienced this are armed with a sensitive defensive system which warns us to disengage immediately. I have thought about what motivates you for these presentations and even at long distance, a wide variety can be noted from outside, and the inside is always a mystery. In my opinion, you do not truly intend to invite our guilt by this humble-brag and I point out this issue in an effort meant to be educational. If anyone feels cranky about the above, please read again the first phrase of the first sentence which is sincerely meant.
Hello, in the United States, prospective patients can directly call clinics to interview and ask questions. You can watch my video on how to identify scammy clinics so you can protect yourself
and also... if withdrawal is a vital state of growth, then jim morrison was not incorrect stating a path to true wisdom is a prolonged state of derangement. but you do need to get to the point where it is no longer being prolonged ;)
Doc- do you think there's a connection with near death experiences and any of these altered states of consciousness? Are NDEs the same experience that people get in their ketamine infusions?
We cannot know for certain, but it may have to do with your mindset before you fell asleep for surgery. I am very happy to hear that you woke up so well after! What kinds of surgeries did you have?
@@MedicalSecrets Also, can you explain WHY some people experience little to ZERO pain after surgery?? When I had my double mascetomy I swear I did not need ANY pain medication. Was barely even sore even when my doctor applied pressure to make sure I wasn't left paralyzed or something!? 😉
Too bad ketamine clinics weren’t available to those who can’t afford them. Living with mental illness for most of life is a horrible life sentence. And being fed antidepressant after antidepressant, anxiety medication, etc. with no help or hope insight just makes it all the worst.
This may have nothing at all to do with what your talking about ok i know it dont but maybe u can help me. It happened just days after my boyfriend was killed in a accident while i was on the phone with him. It sounds crazy even to me when i tell someone about it. but i had a dream and it felt sooo real. In the dream I was running all the way to Peru literally running. Why peru i have no idea. Anyway i saw my bf and he was trying to get me to stay there and was pulling my arm but even tho it was him, looked like him i knew it wasnt him. Then running home i fell and hurt my knees. When i woke up i was still tired and my knees hurt! This was April 1, 2010 and i still cant get it outta my head.
@@sarahsharp8595 if your boyfriend died while you were talking to him on the phone then maybe you are experiencing PTSD... that is a very traumatic thing to go through. Maybe go to talk therapy and they can help you heal and let go. Blessings to you.
With all due respect, I'm trying to separate this from drug use. I mean like anyone out buying drugs off the street. Probably comes from the time I grew up in. I've been watching these videos for quite a while. I just can't seem to get away from how much this sounds like drug abuse. Please show someone who has been through this therapy and has come out from the end, healed. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your perspective. There is a VERY important difference between substance use and therapeutic use in supervised medical settings. Have you seen my video with a patient who underwent a treatment? As I discussed, there are other, non-pharmacologic, ways to experience profound healing, as well. I really do not want the emphasis to be on substances, but rather on the innate healing capacity within human beings
Dr Todd? Told i need gi tube to stay alive or survive and didnt need pain management for level 10 pain over 8 months ago i refused the gi tube its a band aid not a remedy or guarentee to even help withmy gi pain and gi symptoms put me iin hispice without comfort care idk what to do forced to have surgery i do not want and am being threatnes to have this
Ketamine an easier or potentially faster path to meditative hypnosis state? I use that self tech. for basic dental work and light injection procedures with the approval of the doctor to forgo in hospital pills sometimes, not always. Very effective but I have been practicing the process since 2017 and not always possible to achieve on command. … Disclaimer: Not talking about in a first line of care or recreation use.
I had delirium following anesthesia for a major surgery. Many things that happened didn’t create a memory. I hallucinated. Other things did.create a memory. Explanation?
I'm so sorry to hear how about that experience. I cannot know for sure because I was not there, but we can certainly try to discuss on a future live stream
I'm so thankful that finally the powers to be are loosening their grip on the imaginary control they think they have. I started experimenting with hallucinogenic in the early, early 70's. I believe the plant medicine especially, has been useful in my being able to see the and feel in an otherworldly dimension. I know that sounds flaky but it's really quite amazing. My friends think I am very weird. Thank you, Doc.
Really enjoy your channel but I have to say that bashing boomers isn’t a good look for you. It may be funny - yes, but generalizing about any group of people is just tacky prejudice. Please stop it.
I dreamt about my Grandmother and I was watching from a split rail fence. And I saw my Grandfather walking through a field and then my Grandmother walks up and joins him and they walk away hand in hand. And my thought jeez they were so in love! The next day the place where my grandmother was in the nursing home. The nurse told me she hand passed away. Then I said OMG that’s what that dream was about! My Grandfather came to get my Grandmother!
Great Great story. Thankyou
What a wonderful, beautiful dream. They came to say goodbye to you:) ❤️❤️
That is quite a poignant story. Did you find it healing or helpful? While I am sorry for what you had to experience, I am grateful for you sharing your story 🙏
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I felt she had her grandparents saying “ goodbye “, together. Holding hands 🙌. Beautiful. I hope it too. was a defining moment for her , of a positive nature 🌟🧡🌟🧡🌟🧡🍁
I thought it was wonderful. That was a long time ago! Like 1979 or 1980
Doc I wish you were in Australia. I have chronic pain and came off 30 years of EXTREMELY high dose Morphine first injections (90mg a day) with morphine syrup (400mg per10ml) dose. All done under a pain specialist. 2 years ago came off it all slowly over the two years. I’m now having just 20 mg per day. And have learnt and am learning other ways to deal with the pain. I genuinely had tried most things over the 30 years. But had read about the Ketamine “experience” and how it helps so many. But doesn’t seem to be done Much in a safe environment or even available here in Australia. But learning so much from your videos and livestreams. Thank you for all you do. Hopefully more medical doctors will look at what you do and help others around the world.
Loads of love and thanks Leisa Western Australia xx
Last Friday, I had my gallbladder removed. I was semi-awake, and the surgeon told me I had cirrhosis. I started having a flashback as 4 years ago died from cirrhosis and organ failure.
I evidently started cry and shouting that I was going to have a liver transplant. I have ptsd, anxiety and depression . I remember none of this. My brother who was in recovery with me told me 3 days later. The anesthesia team were the only one's who read my chart and they gave a little injection of vercette to stop the flash back and calm me down. The surgeon, I guess didn't see that portion of my chart and didn't know what to do and I remember none of it.
I feel like my dreams provide me peace and healing quite often. ❤
That's so wonderful to hear!
You are so blessed to have this happen
REIKI! Both the practitioner and the patient basically see the patient's situation from a higher perspective. Often, Reiki is simply an enhanced relaxation technique that allows the patient,s body to heal itself without the usual anxiety laden mind chatter about... healing. But here,s an example where Reiki took ME (as the practitioner) to another level. A friend was suffering from a persistent dry cough and relaxation did help, but for no reason in particular, he started talking about his allergies and sinus problems. He was using a neti pot for sinus irrigations. I was suddenly electrified by one urgent question, ''Do you boil the water ???''. He said he didn't need to because he was using well water (!). Long story short: the water was home to a healthy colony of amoebae. The man survived.
Yikes! Good thing that was caught!
Your sweet, soft, kind and caring voice could put me to sleep 💤. I love your voice! I think I would like to hear your voice as I was being anesthetized.
What a great video! I've always thought about each of these states of mind but the way you explained each one and how they're connected made me understand them even better. thanks!
It appears that you have a powerful intuition in connecting the dots!
You can control time. The hardest part to get used to with consciousness is giving up control. Like being a passenger in a car. Relax and enjoy yhe ride. If you can't control something put yourself somewhere that you can (if ya know what I mean)
This is very true. The loss of control allows to renaming our way of viewing things. Having 33 years sobriety.
I want to be able to SLEEP in an Anesthetic state each night. To me, it is the most PEACEFUL, RESTFUL Sleep. No nightmares or weird dreams , just peace 😊😅😂
Isn't it the best sleep ?😊
I've always been fascinated by the subconscious states and spend a lot of time trying to access or study them. I think this is such a cool series hearing your experience and expertise! ❤ Thank you!
I just had a "aha" moment. Every time I have surgery the anesthesiologist always always come in and introduce themselves and ask me all different kinds of questions. I always thought why are they asking things that have nothing to do with the surgery. I now know it's because they're trying to figure out where my mental state is at and how I'm feeling. Thank you I get it now!
Saw a headline at lunch today about a recent research paper showing recovery within the brains of former alcoholics that was unexpected; sounds like it may be related to that 5th state of consciousness you mention.
If I lived in California I would go to your clinic in a heartbeat. I would love to sit down with you and just talk. You are the most compassionate dr I know.
I just want to thank you for your video’s. You videos helped me to communicate with my Anesthesiologist and hospital staff last Monday, 11/6 before my Cervical Formaminotomy surgery. Before every major surgery I’ve had I kept getting these vivid memories and nightmares about being put under as a toddler and kicking the doctors and OR staff. The terror and fear comes back from 46-49 years ago when I was being put under for a club foot correction surgery. You helped me understand that I have medical ptsd.
It helped me to come out of anesthesia thinking I’m playing Pokémon Go and at peace and not agitated.
I realized because of your video’s I need to be informed in detail about what is going on or what the procedure is going to entail knocks my anxiety down from a 10 to near to zero.
I was able to thanks to RUclips watch a video of my surgery with someone my age and have in the same area of the spine being operated on.
I just want you to know how much you’ve helped me out and made my surgery and hospital stay much better and anxiety free.
FYI my overnight nurse was freaking out because my HR was 120 and BP at the lowest was 78/44 and I was asymptomatic. Talking away. I had this same thing in 2009 with another orthopedic surgery. You helped me to be able to communicate to my nurse and not freaking out because of her concern and to effectively communicate this is a typical baseline after major surgery. Which I also mentioned to my surgeon and anesthesiologist and anesthesia nurse.
Since I live in Hawaii! Mahalo nui loa and you made and do make a difference!
I enjoy your channel very much!!
Thank you for the kind comment!
All of the above and more, while holding space and remaining objective and interacting in the way of want to be interacted with. As best I can. Going within and not dismissing my own intuition, while perceiving from every possible angle and not giving away my power or selling out when things started to get uncomfortable. And tbh when I wanted nothing more than to not be here anymore, I made that happen, and why I'm still here I don't know, so maybe it was the depression that wanted to end and sever from me to but here I am, off meds that I've been taking since a car crash in 95
I had Autoimmune Encephalitis 23 years ago. Suffer unrelenting Anhedonia & Depression these days that I believe is traced back to my AE. MRI, Spinal Tap, Blood Tests and everything is normal these days. I’ve tried nearly every med in every class of Psych Meds. Ketamine. Psylocybin. ECT. TMS. Fasting. Various Therapists.
I’m hoping I don’t have to end up 6 feet under to find relief.
I'm so sorry to hear you've been working to heal from this. I hope you can find a trusted healer who can integrate your whole story 🙏
@@MedicalSecrets thank you :)
WOW! Dr. K…. This is quite a deep conversation, today. Dreams, and quite impressionable, upon remembering the dream, upon awakening. Well Stated. Dr. K 🍁🧡🌟🧡🍁. Thanks for sharing this very interesting surgical history. Kindly, artchem1
It is quite a connection, and one that is not discussed in the doctor's office!
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You are so very spot on ! Thank you for sharing your time with us; especially, after a long day, on your feet, in the OR. 🌟🧡🌟🍁
Great effort and dedication…..! 😊👍🏻
Dr. K is so very dedicated! Also, very kind of help us understand surgery 🌟🧡🌟🍁. Well Said !
MDMA coupled with Psyocibin mushrooms CURED my depression and suicidal thoughts !!! I had no idea that when stressed I was having FLASHBACKS of a near drowning when I was 2. I went back to that day and became the day I DIDN’T drown, my family was there and I was in my beloved Hawaii. That was October 27th 2018, I was 60 years old. I call it my re-birthday.
What about the state of FLOW? (see the study and writing by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi). I have experienced this a couple of times and was profoundly moved. One of my conducting teachers answered my question about his experience with flow, after I told him of my experience, and he said he entered that state every time he took a preparatory breath in the gesture that precedes the start of the group sound (a choir, normally).
My experience of ketamine treatment- 7 injections p, increasing dosage each time- for depression without ANY support was uncontrollable, all day crying for a month. The first week was so wild, I work appointment-based and I’d start crying within 20 minutes awake and I cried sun-up to sundown UNLESS I was physically with a client or friend, I would stop crying and operate normal by perception and start crying 5 min after being in the car alone.
How it happened- I didn’t know my insurance wouldn’t cover meeting their therapists until I had already begun treatment. In interview I stressed I had only met my new therapist once and she didn’t constitute the “follow-up” plan box they checked anyway. Hugely, at that point we didn’t know but in the following months I finally got accurately diagnosed with depersonalization disorder (DSM calls it DPDR) and no one with a trauma disorder should be given ketamine in a room all alone and sent home to be in a room all alone.
I am so sorry to hear about your experience, but I greatly admire your vulnerability in sharing. You are absolutely spot-on that we need to use powerful medications like ketamine very carefully, under close medical supervision. I hope you have found healing since then 🙏
@@MedicalSecrets thank you but no I haven't found any relief whatsoever, mental health professionals don't seem to understand depersonalization disorder and so many of times they have just been bad or incompetent at their jobs leading to various IOP and inpatient programs not being what was described to me. I know I need heavy duty trauma work, I can identify the difficult experiences I didn't process that triggered my DPDR, but I am constantly bombarded with heavy duty stuff and family emergencies so I'm constantly under too much emotional stress to do any trauma treatments.
New to your channel and absolutely love it…
So good to see you here! I hope you have learned new strategies to better advocate for your health!
Fascinating subject! I suppose lucid dreaming would be a form of REM sleep but I believe elements of mindfulness are also involved. From what I understand lucid dreaming has potential for therapy including overcoming phobias. In my case I’m already having nightmares about my upcoming MRI. Would love to learn how to control that fear.
I'm not a fan of having MRIs done either, but if they have an upright machine option-> go with that. However if not, have someone come with you (like drive you to, help with paperwork and drive you home) and, well, I can't outright say it, but use a tiny bit of whatever it is that helps you with sleep and/or anxiety. Once with the machine tech, they should provide you with earplugs but they should have access to washcloths as they are just the right size to fold and place over the eyes and help position the head for brain and spine imaging and you can ask for them to muffle your ears with the washcloths (this would only apply if they need your head or spine kept still).
I’ve heard of the open core MRIs but not the standing. Thanks for the heads up! 😊 I’m not too far from Boston. Maybe there? When I needed an MRI for my brain I panicked, had to stop and reschedule with a sedative. I will be needing yearly MRIs (small meningioma) and I’d rather not have to ask family to have to take off work for this. Tomorrow’s MRI is for my spine. I’ll be taking two diazepams 30 minutes beforehand
@@Christynmaine the meds should definitely help, and as long as you know how your body and brain reacts to the meds (being able to drive safely with having appropriate reaction time) then you _should_ be fine. You can typically ask for a washcloth to go over your eyes as a sort of eye mask and most places offer ear plugs. Being as it's a MRI checking on the status of your spine, you can ask for the technician to place folded up washcloths as a further layer to muffle the sounds going in your ears.
Of course (if you're anything like me, I'm quite weird due to extreme hypersensitivity as a result of severe chronic pain), you may still feel all of the banging, beeping and clanging noises, but meds should help temper (alter them enough to not be as bothersome) those sensations.
OH MY GOOOODNESS!! 😊💖
I LOVE this video share from START to FINISH! ✅ *THANK YOU* for honoring your True Self💝 (& ALL!) by putting your years of training, the knowledge you've attained, as well as experiential Wisdom into practicing in a Holistic manner which allows/supports the body in returning it's optimal & Intended state of being!💖💖💖
I had a TURBT surgery 2 weeks ago. I woke up trying to turn on my right side, and I could hear people saying no,no, and grabbing me to put me back on my back. I didn't remember anything more until I woke up in recovery. Would this possibly be from the anesthesia I had? It was an hour and a half sx with my legs up. I had general plus a paralyzing agent because my doctor did not want me to move because the tumor was close to the obtoratur nerve. My recovery was over 3 hours. My glucose was 213, and I am not diabetic. I really didn't feel good. I have had sx before, and the recoveries were fine. I do know this is the first time I had propofol, egg based, I am allergic to soy. Any thoughts? Thank you for taking the time to read my question.
I don’t have advice but that is a very interesting story.
It is an interesting story and I was trying to understand your experience, & I am thinking maybe you think that - Sx- is an abbreviation for surgery. I was taught that -Sx-is an abbreviation for symptoms.
@katiemoyer8679 In medicine, we use sx as an abbreviation for surgery.
@@chrisstepleton4761 Thank you Chris, that is fascinating. I’m a retired advanced credentialed nurse and sx always meant symptoms in my education. I worked on mainland and in pacific rim. In my decades of hand written charting, this was the official hospital abbreviation everywhere I worked. May I inquire where/region even, you have found this is the standard abbreviation?
@katiemoyer8679 In the US. I went to school in NewYork in the 80s.
Near death experiences in Christianity are some of the best stories you could hear, much like your experiences and there are massive amounts of books, youtube and their stories are so, so powerful and the stories and descriptions often radically change the person to the nth degree. It's wonderful that you as an anesthesiologist can go that step further and do integrative medicine. If and when I can come for a visit I will to definitately come see you in san fran then come back to Scotland. (I lived in US for 20 years, so to me they are as much my people as the Scottish are).
As ALWAYS you are so enlightening
I hope you realize how brilliant and beneficial you are to so many of us… 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼💝
Thank you for the video!
You are so welcome! I hope you learned something new to advocate for your health 🙏
Out of body exp was mentioned, here's my story I had that for years til I found how to stop it, last few times it's happened I had been fighting to stay awake fighting sleep on graveyard shift so as I rested I suddenly left my body and away from my body and as I went to stand by my body I got sucked in but was completely paralyzed and left my body again, after a 3rd attempt to get back in I was able to move and now I know that as were going to sleep our senses leave us such as hearing and so on and eventually some type of normal temporary paralysis occurs as we sleep so now I know if you are going to sleep then sleep cuz if your brain is awake when your body is going to sleep you might have out of body exp. Now it hasn't happened to me since as I know what causes it. As I had that I was a sleepwalker as well but I guess I'm cured of that as well, both run or ran in my family and my grandma warned me, told me "if you ever find yourself paralyzed and can't move when waking up you must try and move or else you will die." I thought nothing much at the time (I was 12) and didn't start having those occurrences til I was 16.
Thankyou,I learn so much watching your chanel. The topics and content are awesome.
I'm so happy to hear that you have learned so much! Keep on learning and advocating for your health!
Thank you my amazing doctor K, very intersting!
Hello Dr. Kaveh! Good to see you Sir!
Great live stream! I learned so much!! I’m still waiting on a date for my eye surgery, my eye doctor called me last Friday and gave me an update, he said they are trying to get all of the credentials together! I really enjoy donating to the anesthesiologist foundation, since it was hard for me to college because of my cerebral palsy,, I really wanted to be a anesthesiologist physician, do you think my anesthesiologist can film me going to sleep? I would love to see that! You rock man! You been hocking loogies lately?😂! I look up to all Anesthesiologist and CRNA it takes a special person and skill to be a CRNA or anesthesiologist and you’re one of them!!
So good to see you!
@@MedicalSecrets it’s always good seeing you too! I always learn a lot from you
looks like an upgrade in the image quality, or is that in my head? enjoying the videos as always
Good eye! Yes, I am test driving my new camera!
Hi Dr. Kaveh! Just want to say your videos are looking really professional. Are you using a new camera? If so, can you tell me what brand of camera you’re using and what kind of lens? Thanks.
Thanks I really enjoyed this video altered states of consciousness are so incredibly paradoxical and interesting!am I waking into another dream when I awaken?I'm considered nuerodiverse I have a mental health diagnosis and throughout the years tried a host of different psychotropic medications none of which helped me personally or socially.when I finally tried pscylocyben mushrooms in a self guided therapeutic way it worked better than any prescribed meds ever did!it seemed to have an entraining affect that was lasting whereas with the other prescribed medication there was a fallout that I would have to re adapt to a rubber band snapping back.when I used mushrooms I used solfeggio frequency music.i kept thinking deprivation I'm not sure what altered state that arouses but I know that deprivation can also be transformative as there is nothing to control.
Thank you I'm learning a lot
After surgery to I had the experience of seeing a representation of God. On the wall I saw +7 -7 It made me weep and was so profound it changed me..
Uh! Thanks Dr. Kaveh, Interesting & informative.
I'm so happy to hear that!
I have a friend who takes alot of kratom. I feel their personality changed. What can you tell us about this pain reliever and its effects?
I've seen people on it become paranoid.
I wonder how to request a treatment for Traumatic PTSD
my experience of Chemo was just such an experience of healing. It awakened my empathy and I had to learn how to deal with this once suppressed ability.
That sounds like an incredibly empowering experience in the midst of such a challenging time
Thanks Dr Kaveh! I really struggle with vivid dreams/nightmares. They make me wake up tired and stressed. Is there a way to prevent dreaming?
Please, PLEASE do a video about retrograde amnesia!!!! I had it twice and I don’t understand why.
Please help!
Hello, I am so sorry to hear about your experience. When you say retrograde amnesia, are you referring to something that happened in the operating room?
After surgery, both times, I have NO MEMORIES of arrival to the hospital, going home or 5 days after surgery. My memories were wiped out from the time I left home until 5 days later. What happened???
@@nurshark10 You sound like my late sister! She was very sensitive to the medications used during surgery. Her memory wasn't wiped out for quite as long as yours, but she was very loopy for a couple days and could recall almost none of what she said or did during that time span! And she did strange things like putting a half-eaten sandwich in her nightstand drawer, and then being totally disgusted when she opened the drawer and saw the half-eaten sandwich in there!!😁
I just posted a comment and it’s not here .. strange 🤔🤔
Oh, that is such a bummer! I hope things are well otherwise
@@MedicalSecretsI have joined this thing called discord Doc .. you mentioned we can ask you questions
I just shared my experience on here but I don’t think it’s been posted 🙄🤷🏻♀️
Welcome to the censors of RUclips!
Control your dreams. I can go back and change ending.
Ive had a few dreams where i was aware it was a dream and had control. Ive yet to have a bad psychedelic experience even with dmt it was either nothing, a story, or just a beautiful experience
everything is your grindstone, keep your blade properly oriented to stay sharp.
Dreams are informative. ❤
I bet you’re fun to trip with. Thanks for the info.
My $.02: There are people for whom modern society simply does not work.
The scope of possibilities for our minds is much broader than we usually think, but this is not a guarantee that there are good outcomes hiding in there. There might be. There might not.
(I also think "realizing that one does not have control" is more accurate than "losing control". You can't lose what you didn't have.)
(And I think trust in guided experiences is probably appropriate in many cases, but has potential for deep harm. It relies on an assumption of a shared mental landscape that, when violated, means you might be gas-lighting someone who is in a maximally vulnerable state.
Yes, the risk of unguided experiences is real. The question is whether it's more likely in a given case that one will lose oneself vs. be misled by another. Absolutely no ill intent is required for the latter. We're comparing risks, not comparing risk vs. safety.)
I don't remember my dreams. Unless they are bad.
Or if I'm reading and have hallucinatory micro sleep. I will think that whatever I hallucinated is part of what I am reading. It makes me bonkers as I search for what I thought I had read. Sometimes it was really good.
My cousin has been suffering from depression and bipolar disorder for decades. She tried Ketamine (in a clinic with excellent guidance), but unfortunately it didn't resolve her depression. Neither has any other medication. She is unable to work and barely able to care for her family. Are there more therapies being developed now for unresponsive depression?
I'm curious what kind of ketamine clinic this was. IV?
I'm I'm so sorry to hear about your cousin. I'm wishing them the best in their healing🙏
@@MedicalSecrets Sorry to say I don't know. I believe it was at Johns Hopkins, or else in Washington D.C.
@@MedicalSecrets Thank you so very much.
Reminds me of Naomi Judd. Her depression was extremely drug resistant! She was a RN and could explain so articulately what was going on in her brain, and she tried so many therapies and medications, but NOTHING seemed to help.💔
Great video
Dr. Help me please, my 27 year old son is addicted to alcohol to cope with depression and anxiety, he says it numbs him from the suffering what do I do? Where do I take him? Who do I talk to?
What is the risk? A Bad Trip! How do you navigate them through that terror? I dunno... sounds like a lot of "Shake the Shrunken Head" to me...
With all respect for your wisdom, intelligence and generosity, I ask you to stop asking us to support you 'after a long day in the operating room'. This is an effort to induce guilt - 'how could you ill-treat me after all I have done for you?' - a gaslighting, as currently said. Perhaps you have not had guilt based expressions of gratitude forced from you in your lifetime, but those of us who have experienced this are armed with a sensitive defensive system which warns us to disengage immediately.
I have thought about what motivates you for these presentations and even at long distance, a wide variety can be noted from outside, and the inside is always a mystery. In my opinion, you do not truly intend to invite our guilt by this humble-brag and I point out this issue in an effort meant to be educational.
If anyone feels cranky about the above, please read again the first phrase of the first sentence which is sincerely meant.
how would i go about doing ket with doctor approval?
Hello, in the United States, prospective patients can directly call clinics to interview and ask questions. You can watch my video on how to identify scammy clinics so you can protect yourself
NDE
and also...
if withdrawal is a vital state of growth, then jim morrison was not incorrect stating a path to true wisdom is a prolonged state of derangement. but you do need to get to the point where it is no longer being prolonged ;)
Hi there, Doctor Todd.
Doc- do you think there's a connection with near death experiences and any of these altered states of consciousness? Are NDEs the same experience that people get in their ketamine infusions?
I’m thirty minutes too late but I hear you just fine!
Prayer
Hypnotism
Anesthesia and I've had it for all my surgeries, when I wake up I always feel great. Why is that?
We cannot know for certain, but it may have to do with your mindset before you fell asleep for surgery. I am very happy to hear that you woke up so well after! What kinds of surgeries did you have?
Back and neck surgeries multiple times, gull bladder,appendix,colon,hysterectomy and knee surgery.
@@MedicalSecrets Also, can you explain WHY some people experience little to ZERO pain after surgery?? When I had my double mascetomy I swear I did not need ANY pain medication. Was barely even sore even when my doctor applied pressure to make sure I wasn't left paralyzed or something!? 😉
Unity consciousness
2 days late lol
Too bad ketamine clinics weren’t available to those who can’t afford them. Living with mental illness for most of life is a horrible life sentence. And being fed antidepressant after antidepressant, anxiety medication, etc. with no help or hope insight just makes it all the worst.
What state of consciousness is Dissociation?
No mind
This may have nothing at all to do with what your talking about ok i know it dont but maybe u can help me. It happened just days after my boyfriend was killed in a accident while i was on the phone with him. It sounds crazy even to me when i tell someone about it. but i had a dream and it felt sooo real. In the dream I was running all the way to Peru literally running. Why peru i have no idea. Anyway i saw my bf and he was trying to get me to stay there and was pulling my arm but even tho it was him, looked like him i knew it wasnt him. Then running home i fell and hurt my knees. When i woke up i was still tired and my knees hurt! This was April 1, 2010 and i still cant get it outta my head.
Maybe I'm just crazy
@@sarahsharp8595 if your boyfriend died while you were talking to him on the phone then maybe you are experiencing PTSD... that is a very traumatic thing to go through. Maybe go to talk therapy and they can help you heal and let go. Blessings to you.
With all due respect, I'm trying to separate this from drug use. I mean like anyone out buying drugs off the street. Probably comes from the time I grew up in. I've been watching these videos for quite a while. I just can't seem to get away from how much this sounds like drug abuse. Please show someone who has been through this therapy and has come out from the end, healed. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your perspective. There is a VERY important difference between substance use and therapeutic use in supervised medical settings. Have you seen my video with a patient who underwent a treatment? As I discussed, there are other, non-pharmacologic, ways to experience profound healing, as well. I really do not want the emphasis to be on substances, but rather on the innate healing capacity within human beings
Is it true that doctors are using katamine to treat depression?
Dr Todd? Told i need gi tube to stay alive or survive and didnt need pain management for level 10 pain over 8 months ago i refused the gi tube its a band aid not a remedy or guarentee to even help withmy gi pain and gi symptoms put me iin hispice without comfort care idk what to do forced to have surgery i do not want and am being threatnes to have this
Hello I got insomnia after some incident. Do I have a chance of healing? It's been 17 years 😢
Being under anesthesia
pharmaceutical MDMA for the win
Ketamine an easier or potentially faster path to meditative hypnosis state? I use that self tech. for basic dental work and light injection procedures with the approval of the doctor to forgo in hospital pills sometimes, not always.
Very effective but I have been practicing the process since 2017 and not always possible to achieve on command. …
Disclaimer: Not talking about in a first line of care or recreation use.
I hear you, and thank you for sharing your experience. One must absolutely be trained in how to use these powerful medications, you're correct
I had delirium following anesthesia for a major surgery. Many things that happened didn’t create a memory. I hallucinated. Other things did.create a memory. Explanation?
I'm so sorry to hear how about that experience. I cannot know for sure because I was not there, but we can certainly try to discuss on a future live stream
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Hello back from San Francisco!
EST experience. ? Perhaps
Dissociation
Can you help me?
A hard reset for the Brain
Coma!
Delta
Delta what?
I thought there were levels of consciousness I can’t remember the order that’s like Alpha Beta, Delta like that!
😊 If you confess with your mouth Jesus is lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved.
I'm so thankful that finally the powers to be are loosening their grip on the imaginary control they think they have. I started experimenting with hallucinogenic in the early, early 70's. I believe the plant medicine especially, has been useful in my being able to see the and feel in an otherworldly dimension. I know that sounds flaky but it's really quite amazing. My friends think I am very weird. Thank you, Doc.
Hello
Really enjoy your channel but I have to say that bashing boomers isn’t a good look for you. It may be funny - yes, but generalizing about any group of people is just tacky prejudice. Please stop it.