Nir Eyal

And I would not believe it unless I saw it with my own eyes, right?

So, and I've seen this.

Daniel Gissler is a guy who is the most analytical person I've ever met.

He's a former commodities trader, definitely a numbers person, doesn't believe in anything so-called woo-woo or spiritual.

He's a very cut and dry, black and white kind of guy.

In his early 50s, he has this freak accident and he shatters his ankle.

And in the course of this operation, he has to have pins put into his bones.

A few years later, it's time for these pins to be removed.

And in the course of that time, he prepares for this surgery by learning a technique called hypnosedation.

Now for me, when I heard hypnosedation, my scientific mind kind of had alarm bells going off that I was very, very skeptical.

Turns out that Daniel was able to go through a 55-minute procedure where scapel was cutting into flesh, where metal screws were retched from bone, and he did this 100% consciously.

He did this under hypnosedation where he says he felt the sensations.

He felt the signal, the data going into his brain about what was going on, but he wasn't suffering from it.

And the most remarkable part about this example, and again, I've seen the surgery, I've seen the video, is that it's not that remarkable.

That in fact, tens of thousands of people go through similar surgeries in Switzerland, in Italy, in France.

It's not that uncommon, this technique of hypnosedation.

Zero anesthetic, no general anesthesia, no local anesthesia, zero, nothing.

There is no anesthesiologist in the room.

That's exactly right.

That recovery time improves for people who don't go into anesthesia.