How does it feel to loose consciousness?

[Corovaner]

Please, anyone who has experienced it, can you describe this feeling? Does it seems like fall asleep?

 

[Forveleth]

Pretty much. There might be some dizziness and tingling somewhere in your body.

 

[CatLvr]

It is heavenly. The lightness ... And the peace ... OMG. And then when I come to I always feel like I've gotten the best night's sleep of my life.

 

[Dyingoportunity]

Yeah, basically. The dizziness and lightheadedness don't last all that long, but it's a little strange to pass out and wake up to find that you got moved elsewhere.

 

[JesiBel]

Like flying, being light as a feather, you don't feel your weight, as if you vanished into thin air.

 

[bleeding_heart_show]

I had several seizures(?) involving loss of consciousness between 2017-2019.

They would start with a feeling of heaviness/tingling in my limbs, then disorientation and loss of vision, and finally loss of consciousness.

It truly is like falling asleep, just spontaneously. I would feel myself start to fall and then wake up on the ground with a vague memory of the smacking sound sound my skull made hitting the tile floor.

 

[Intoxicated]

I could notice several key differences between passing out from inhaling nitrous and falling asleep.

1. Transition to unconsciousness from nitrous asphyxiation is gradual and can be remembered well till the point of blackout or near-blackout. I can't recall the process of falling asleep, it seems suddenly happening without any remarkable intermediate stages.

2. The sense of impending fainting always occurred together with tinnitus (ringing in the ears). I don't experience tinnitus when falling asleep. Some people don't have tinnitus in either case.

3. Transition to unconsciousness may happen with open eyes. In this case, dimness and blurriness of vision can be noticed. This is not something you can commonly observe when falling asleep.

4. When unconsciousness was near, tingling sensations on the face occurred and I couldn't sense the body. I can't recall equivalent perceptions when falling asleep. On very rare occasions, "the absence of body" or "the absence of gravity" was perceived when waking up from a sleep.

In the unconscious state, nothing was remembered, so it was pretty similar to sleeping without dreams. But I've read that dreams are possible under shallow narcosis induced by nitrous.

 

[malia]

I passed out twice, once as a kid and once quite recently. I felt it coming, I warned my ex I might pass out soon so if I stop texting him, he should alarm someone. Then I stopped hearing things, everything disappeared, it was like falling asleep very quickly. When I woke up, I didn't know if I really passed out or what happened, I was slowly coming to my senses.

 

[Dejected 55]

I mean... I've fainted before from weakness or blood loss or being sick... that usually happens rather quickly and it's hard to describe the feeling. I also passed out during my heart attack years ago. Passed out a couple of times, fell into the floor and don't remember how that happened even. The passing out was always sudden and I don't remember it happening. Waking up was always a weird feeling of cold sweat and hot flash as I came back to consciousness, but the loss of consciousness I have no memory attached to it.

 

[Manic Panic]

Not everyone experiences it the same but for me it starts with ringing in my ears ,followed by tunnel vision and feeling extremely weak and dizzy.
You don't experience anything else once you are unconscious, coming to is really confusing and it takes a bit of time to understand that time has passed and that you fell unconscious.

 

[22yearsbroken]

Its was quite a strange experiance for me .. but different each time from partial hanging to overdose to having a seizure or through sever pain being shot ( it hit my vest) .. but i can say it felt peacfull in a way i kinda knew it was happening and the way my brain did its weird and wonderfull thing.. was moments of europhia and almost a real sense of hightend emotion and buzz .. if you ever done some good E its like that but in peace .. but i know its differwnt for each person depending on circumstance .. if during anger ..it would be very different.. through my different times all being different .. its been a constant .. but the brain has its own set of rules on how to deal with tbings and sometimes it does some amazing beautiful things..to do what right for us.. but sometimes the brain ia a complete and utter fucking cockwomble..that just out to be a twat..

 

[cemeteryismyhome]

I was knocked out once for a medical procedure (never again). It was very fast. It felt exactly as if a wireframe box appeared in my brain and got smaller until it was gone, and that was it for me. I hated it.

 

[SomewhatLoved]

There are certain methods you can use to force yourself to lose consciousness. I remember one I saw in shallow water blackout discussions circa 2023 went something like this:

1. sit/lay down on your bed and hyperventilate for several minutes, taking shallow and rapid breaths. You may already start to feel lightheaded in this step.

2. once you have done step 1 for several minutes, quickly stand up on your bed/some soft surface and hold your breath "hard" (create pressure in your throat/mouth). Alternatively, you could stick your thumb in your mouth and blow against it to create pressure.

3. If done correctly you should pass out and fall over, so make sure there's nothing hard surrounding you that you may hurt yourself on.

When I did this in the past I recorded it, and the video showed that I eventually "fell" to a kneeling position and caught myself preventing a fall and then sort of rolled softly onto the ground. I have no recollection of this, and all I remembered was standing on my bed holding my breath and then waking up on the ground.

 

[Dejected 55]

I'll have to try that to see if I can make it happen near my bed so I fall safely. I never tried to make myself pass out on purpose.

 

[Promised Heaven]

It depends on the reason for falling unconscious. Some are fast and quick, others are slow and uncomfortable.

I pass out due to low blood pressure (hypotension). In most cases, it was confusion, dizziness, black spots, hearing also starts to fizzle and skin starts to tingle a tiny bit. After a minute or two, I wake up. I don't fully recall the act of passing out.

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

Like falling asleep you cannot catch the moment, I noticed that I was unconscious not until I woke up.
Unlike falling asleep unconsciousness comes unespectet fast and without warning, at least in the cases of anaesthesia and full hanging. In the second case the vision blurres immediately before unconsciousness.

 

[Corovaner]

Thank you all for your answers.

 

[spoonfed]

I took an OD and remember getting abit fuzzy or foggy, my head wasn't spinning and as weird as it sounds it was quite peaceful, my head never shuts up noise constantly me arguing with myself internally, so it was different to be calm. I don't want to say it was an out of body experience but it's the only way to describe it. I can remember me falling on the bed I watched it happen as I stood at the foot of the bed then that's it nothing till I woke up in ITU I just sat up bolt right and started pulling tubes out my throat and lines sewn into me took 3 nurses to calm me down apparently my son had found me and rang emergency services. After waking up, my head was so clear not a sound all the chatter had stopped all the noises gone my head felt lighter. That feeling of mental clarity lasted 4 days before the noise moved back in.

 

[bananaolympus]

It doesn't feel like falling asleep it doesn't feel anything watch a vid of someone getting koed before falling to the floor is like that a split sec

 

[quins]

The feeling of "lightheadedness" isn't as clear as most people describe it, at least to me. I've fallen unconscious a few times in my life, preceding usually from "trigeminal stress", so I can always point to an elect moment in which I know I'm falling unconscious.

I've been under surgery once or twice before, which is admittedly very different, but the same process of "filling in the blanks" leading up to unconsciousness is the same.

 

[waistcoat]

I've suddenly lost consciousness a few times in my life, some due to a fainting condition, some due to drugs, some from being knocked out, and some from being choked - it's important to disguish the different types of forceful loss of consciousness.

Fainting - You get lightheaded, as in, your head physically feels light, sometimes to the point it feels like it has a "negative weight" and wants to float upwards. Your vision rapidly starts going black from the outside inwards, the world becomes blurry at the same time & you will stop being able to hear anything aside from extremely muffled sound and sometimes a deafening whitenoise / high pitch ringing. Your body also starts to feel tingly. Your limbs are movable but rapidly stop responding to inputs. This all happens within about 15 seconds, you can be unconsious for up to a minute. Waking up is very much a disorienting experience, depending on how prepared you were you may have fallen over and hurt yourself, be prepared for pain.

Drugs (what an overdose will be like) - Your head feels heavy, you physically don't have the strength to move it, you will also barely have the ability to keep your eyes open - breathing if possible will be done "automatically", that or you will be gasping or not even realise you're not breathing. Your vision will do the same as when you faint, but on a much faster rate depending on what quantities and type of the drug you took. Your hearing will go in-and-out of being clear to being muffled, to there being absolutely nothing. This can happen repeatedly (10-15 times) over the course of half an hour or longer, with each blackout lasting for 10-15 seconds. Waking up after it all ends will leave you feeling like shit for hours to days afterwards, with zero energy and a big headache. You will probably also throw up during and after this entire process.

Being knocked out - It's instant. You go from being conscious to not instantly. Waking up you will be in pain and heavily disoriented, you might throw up, it's unpleasant. You will likely have been unconsious for 5-10 seconds at most.

Being choked (air choke) - Unpleasant as you will be trying to gasp for air the whole time, you will have a pain in your lungs from CO2 buildup, and will slowly start to experience the same blackout process as fainting.

Being choked (blood choke) - Same as fainting.