Having wisdom teeth out was also a fascinating experience for me for similar reasons, but I don’t know what I did in that lucid-but-amnesiac (and for all I know actually unconscious?) interval. I did apparently walk to the recovery room under my own power, so while I don’t think I was asking questions or solving math problems, I was at least navigating under my own power and avoiding running into walls. What really sticks in my mind was that I had this experience of “coming to”, like almost identical to the sensation of waking up except without feeling like I had just been asleep. It wasn’t that different from other experience where I’d had a lapse of awareness and come back suddenly to awareness of the present moment, but the discontinuity was more dramatic.
(As a side note, I love the thought of smuggling a short-term memory out of a period of memory loss by hiding it in a long-term memory. No idea whether I’d expect that to actually work, but definitely a creative approach to the problem.)
Having wisdom teeth out was also a fascinating experience for me for similar reasons, but I don’t know what I did in that lucid-but-amnesiac (and for all I know actually unconscious?) interval. I did apparently walk to the recovery room under my own power, so while I don’t think I was asking questions or solving math problems, I was at least navigating under my own power and avoiding running into walls. What really sticks in my mind was that I had this experience of “coming to”, like almost identical to the sensation of waking up except without feeling like I had just been asleep. It wasn’t that different from other experience where I’d had a lapse of awareness and come back suddenly to awareness of the present moment, but the discontinuity was more dramatic.
(As a side note, I love the thought of smuggling a short-term memory out of a period of memory loss by hiding it in a long-term memory. No idea whether I’d expect that to actually work, but definitely a creative approach to the problem.)