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Scientists raise the alarm about vivid sexual hallucinations under anesthesia (www.psypost.org)

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Procedures involving the mouth were perceived as oral sex, squeezing a ball to make a vein more accessible as squeezing a penis, chest procedures as breast fondling and groin procedures as vaginal penetration.

WARNING: Squeezing a ball is completely different from squeezing a penis!

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And as an fyi for anyone that may be confused: They mean the patient squeezing a rubber ball while their arm is in a tourniquet (the band that goes around the upper arm while blood is drawn).

(But yes, either type of ball is completely different than squeezing a penis. Just goes to show how screwy perception can get while under anesthesia.)