narcosis

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“The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has.… Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023

Using a helium-oxygen mixture avoids the disoriented mental state known as nitrogen narcosis, the so-called rapture of the deep.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Methylene chloride can kill either through direct narcosis or through metabolization into carbon monoxide, which binds to hemoglobin in the blood and inhibits oxygen from moving around the body.

From Washington Post • May 10, 2018

To evade this induced narcosis and reclaim lived experience, Wu argues, we must wean ourselves off the digital.

From Nature • Oct. 11, 2016

But at last, the narcosis of cellular exhaustion completely overcame him and he slept.

From Deepfreeze by Locke, Robert Donald