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But maybe the brain was doing something very similar all along: blocking out the world, just a little bit more during sleep. Maybe we have been blinded by our fixation on our own consciousness, which is not the end-all of what a brain does.

mind blown.

Not to shit on your experience or anything. But I'm pretty sure the person you replied to already knew that (he has his own experience with heroin), and the question was poised at the OP who had a clearly unique situation.

The man went from smoking heroin to being completely paralyzed with people looking at him saying he's going to die, daily, for over a year.

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And scaring a heroin addict straight isn't easy to do.

Hence why EchoTab wanted to know if this extreme situation did the trick.

Wow, what a hard life.