Why do we not feel pain under general anesthesia? Is it the same for regular sleep?

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I’m curious what mechanism is at work here.

Edit: Thanks for the responses. I get it now. Obviously I am still enjoying the discussion RE: the finer points like memory, etc.

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Your nit asleep durung anaesthesia, you are in a coma from drugs. A special type of sleep which you cant wake up from until drugs turn off. Some of drugs are very strong pain killers and sometimes special injections stop your nerves from carrying pain.

When your operation if finished the very cleaver doctors turn all those drugs off and you wakeup.

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