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Inhaling nitrous oxide
Category: Events
Type
Involuntary
Introduction and description
The inhalation of nitrous oxide is no different in how it works to the principles described under the more general heading of Inhaling volatiles and gases, but its effects are so different and its profile so marked that it needed a separate heading.
Nitrous oxide is regularly used as an anaesthetic and has been used in this capacity for over 180 years.
How it works
For all the information on how it works and the background see the separate section inhaling volatiles and gases, however, in brief the gas seeps past the blood brain barrier via the spinal column and enters the brain, where, because of its specific profile, it affects various organs of the brain knocking them out.
What I hope you will be able to see from the observations, however, is that the one abiding disadvantage that nitrous oxide has is that although it undoubtedly ‘works’ at low doses, it is also a very effective wiper out of memory and as such you never remember what has happened. Only children seem to remember, because they are better at accessing their perceptions and building a memory of the experience after the event.
In effect, nitrous oxide works via two mechanisms
References and further reading
- http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/inhalants/inhalants.shtml
- Meyler’s Side Effects of drugs
- The English pioneers of anaesthesia – Frederick Fox Cartwright – which provides a history of the use of nitrous oxide
- Autoradiographic distribution of volatile anesthetics within the brain – Drs N Cohen, Kao L Chow, and Lawrence Mathers
- Laughing gas – nitrous oxide – edited by Michael Shedlin and David Wallechinsky, this has far more details on methods of use, safety, history, case histories etc
- http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/nitrous/nitrous.shtml
Related observations
Healing observations
Hallucination
- Acute psychosis following ingestion of 'Rapture' 020727
- Acute psychosis requiring hospital treatment 002173
- Dr Penny Sartori - Hallucinations are usually caused by pharmaceuticals in hospitals 014533
- Hallucinations and termination of pregnancy 006808
- Nitrous + !Rave! Postby UltimaWarrior 020093
- Psychosis from whippit abuse 002172
- William Lopez 002170
- William Lopez hallucinates 002178
Wisdom, Inspiration, Divine love & Bliss
- Blood, B P 002179
- Blyton, Enid - I did see and grasp everything 002174
- Dalton, John – Philosophical Experiments – THE SINGULAR EFFECTS OF LAUGHING GAS 025342
- Davy, Sir Humphry - Sublime emotions, vivid ideas and feeling like the sound of a harp 002151
- Dora Kaplan 002180
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Miss Marion Price of 37 Osborn Rd., London, N.13 has an OBE 023775
- James, William - Gary Lachman - Inhaling Nitrous Oxide 002158
- James, William - The Varieties of Religious Experience - Ineffable good 002749
- Malevich, Kazimir - Girl with a comb in her hair 007700
- Malevich, Kazimir - Girls in the Fields 007703
- Malevich, Kazimir - Mystic suprematism 007701
- Malevich, Kazimir - Red Square 007702
- Malevich, Kazimir - Suprematism 1915 007706
- Malevich, Kazimir - Suprematismus 007707
- Malevich, Kazimir - The Peasant Woman 1912 007705
- Malevich, Kazimir - The Reaper on Red 1913 007704
- Malevich, Kazimir - various paintings 002156
- Ouspensky, P D - Talks with a Devil - On the effects of nitrous oxide 002157
- Southey, Robert - From the Curse of Kehama 002182
- Ward, R H - The All is the One 002169
Out of time
- B E B at dentist 002185
- Blyton, Enid - I did see and grasp everything 002174
- Churchill, Winston - My New York Misadventure 023788
- Dentist goes out of body during treatment 002175
- Dentist into velvety blackness 005236
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Dr A. Puharich’s patients have an OBE 023772
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Miss Marion Price of 37 Osborn Rd., London, N.13 has an OBE 023775
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mrs P. M. Grant, of Chingford has an OBE 023768
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Nurse Winfred Lawson Smith has an OBE 023766
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – The man, who had been given gas for a dental operation, has an OBE 023774
- Ginsberg, Allen - Howl, Kaddish and other poems - High on Laughing gas 002186
- Lethbridge, T C - The Power of the Pendulum – Out of body in the dentists from gas 021946
- Malevich, Kazimir - various paintings 002156
- Mrs Lilla Lavender has an OBE at the dentist 023765
- Mrs S A P Thirlwall 002164
- Nitrous oxide out of body 002148
- Out of body during dental treatment 002177
- Out of body during dental treatment 002176
- Out of body from dentist 002163
- Out of body in dentist 002165
- Out of body in dentists 002153
- Out of body in dentists young boy 002154
- Sarah near death 002160
- Swann, Ingo - Out of body during tonsillectomy 003213
- Ward, R H - Flying through the region of ideas 002184
Enlightenment
- Blyton, Enid - I did see and grasp everything 002174
- James, William - The Varieties of Religious Experience - Ineffable good 002749
In time
- Carbogen visuals 007603
- Danielou, Alain – On drugs you are possessed by the spirit being of the drug 022582
- Davy, Sir Humphry - Sublime emotions, vivid ideas and feeling like the sound of a harp 002151
- Dentist into velvety blackness 005236
- Phantastica 002161
- Roget - The nitrous oxide experiment 002150
- T J Logan 002155
- Vietnam perfect recall 002166
- William Lopez 002170
- William Lopez hallucinates 002178
Other observations
- Balloon parties 002181
- F W Clement on nitrous oxide 002171
- Genetic damage in operating room personnel exposed to isoflurane and nitrous oxide 027604
- Jennifer Joseph 002162
- Michael Shedlin and David Wallechinsky on nitrous oxide 002149
- Moses Thomas 002152
- Occupational exposure of midwives to nitrous oxide on delivery suites 027605
- Rock festival use 002183