Anesthesia Dream Survey #640C Our second dream image from ChatGPT. Patient corrected our dream survey over Stanford Epic through photos, messages and phone calls. We settled on this image, with full permission of patient. We grow older and sicker. In a busy day in the

Dream Survey #815D We are fortunate to in America to not face war directly. Others, immigrants to our country, still carry that anxiety and that active trauma.. This anesthesia dream would fit the classical definition of a “nightmare” - negative and dark images of war. And yet

A team at Stanford Medicine has developed a reproducible method of using common anesthetics to generate a “continuous and profound positive dream state” in surgical anesthesia patients. And these aren’t your typical dreams—they can be identified by unique EEG patterns, which "appear

Big Think is the best ! Excellent description of where we have been and where we are going with this research. Source: Big Think search.app/pwobnzq5SQpw7i…

Stanford Anesthesia Dream survey #209 - ChatGPT image One of my personal favorites of the nearly 1000 anesthesia dreams I’ve witnessed in my long career. This patient was a young female who came to Silicon Valley to work in tech - alone. Now with diagnosis of breast cancer and

Anesthesia Dream Survey #906 Orthopedic patients almost always have obvious surgical anesthesia dreams - they dream of a life they would have with their injured limb working again. Patient #906 was no different she came from Pennsylvania to see a specific hand surgeon at

Congrats to Jasper on the best abstract award for our Stanford anesthesia dream PTSD research at the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine meeting! Research and patients are going to benefit.

Happy Veterans Day! Anesthesia Dream Survey #779, a male military veteran after beginning gender reassignment surgery, suffering from chronic PTSD from active service diffusing explosives. Memories processed as a dream but this time he has become a woman. Thank you for

Dream Survey #990 - The 2024 Presidential election (The Day After) Anesthesia dreams typically a safe places for a patient to process anxiety and clearly the federal Presidential election caused a LOT of anxiety at Stanford with cranky colleagues everywhere. The day after the

Can #psychedelics under anesthesia heal #trauma? We discuss this & more w/ Stanford University anesthesiologist Boris D Heifets. We explore new research on #MDMA, #psilocybin, & the 1st double-blind study of #ketamine, the placebo effect, & the therapeutic value of anesthesia-induced dreams.

Was fortunate to get together with Dr. Geoff Brock (FHS 1982) on his daughter’s college tours (Berkeley and Stanford). We caught up had a couple of beers. Geoff is a tenured Literature Professor at University of Arkansas and has graciously offered to help edit my play project

Stanford Anesthesia Uncovers New Frontier in Alleviating PTSD - M-A Chronicle - couldn’t be prouder! Isabel Habibi a rising junior at Menlo -Atherton High School, writes about PTSD, our research, and hope for the teen suicide epidemic. machronicle.com/stanford-anest…

Posters about our anesthesia dream research at CSA annual meeting last week. Great work and as usual a lot of interest, Poster 1 : EEG signatures for 4 different Propofol-based protocols . Poster 2 : Use of Epherine to promote EEG changes consistent with anesthesia dreams.

🌟Attention!!! I’ll be giving a talk in SF on Tue, May 13—yes, science + beer! Curious about dreams, anesthesia, and the mysteries of the mind? Come hang out, learn something cool, and bring a friend! Grab yours spot here: lu.ma/xol9vx2j The Sycamore

What happens in the brain under anesthesia? youtu.be/dmp5dy0Kopw?si… via YouTube Excellent job by Max Feinstein ! We have so much to do and discover . I had the flu during the interview ( so I wasn’t my best ) but happy to bring attention to our research and coming therapy.

Well after over a decade of my ramblings in the OR about manufactured anesthesia dreaming having a possible therapeutic effect on PTSD - well we are funded and approved to test this clinical hypothesis in our dream lab. If you or somebody you know has PTSD (the stuff of living

And a special *thank youuu* for the poster award - super happy that #dreams are recognized as important also in the psychedelic science space Boris D Heifets #GRCPsychedelics