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

At temperatures below about 1 °C, they become unable to regulate magnesium in body fluids, leading to narcosis, clumsiness and paralysis of breathing.

From Nature • Dec. 12, 2012

The apparent resemblance, indeed, between narcosis and hypnosis diminishes on a closer analysis.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)