Jad Abumrad

So your brain is hearing sounds.

That's spooky.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So what could be happening is that when you're under anesthesia, all the different parts of your brain, to some degree, they could be awake.

It's not that your brain is just stopping.

No, all those parts of the brain are still talking.

They're just not talking to each other.

Very well anymore.

And that somehow knocks you out.

So lots of chit-chat amongst the different parts of my brain make me conscious and not so much chit-chat equals unconsciousness.

Yeah, that's the idea.

And how do the slow waves relate to that?

Well, Patrick thinks of it sort of in baseball terms.

Right.

And the thing is that when the wave is going on in the stadium, you can't really carry on a normal conversation.

You can't have a normal interaction.

You may not even be able to have a normal thought because the thing is just coming by every couple seconds to interrupt you.

That is sort of the rationale for how these oscillations disrupt brain activity.

I dig the analogy, but I'm not quite following.