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Re:Our Conscious Experience of the World Is but a Memory, Sa... by pmontra on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @04:28AM (#33341153)
Not that painkiller but eSport as pain killer worked for me. Can't sleep because of a teeth and no pain killer drug at home? Lap for an hour at some circuit on my PS and fall asleep at least a little bit. Then pay a visit to the dentist :-)

Maybe this is somewhat related to the subject of the post: detach consciousness from what I am doing and the pain gets a little detached too. However I doubt it would work with serious levels of pain.

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Re:Our Conscious Experience of the World Is but a Memory, Sa... by dopidopHN on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @07:46AM (#33342289)
It does, there is some very promessing studies on patient that suffer massive body burn ( most of their skin is gone )

The traditional approch is pain killers and some meditation.

VR helps a lot.

On two front : it distract your brain and it can teach you how to reach that distracted from the pain state by yourself.

My understanding is that a large pourcentage of the neurons are specialized in image processing. And that keeping those busy with exploring a VR world avoid to have those neurons re-assign to ponder about pain.

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