Smiling is one of the best ways to make people instantly like you, research reveals.

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“anesthesia awareness,” in which a patient given a general anesthetic for a surgical procedure experiences only the paralysis without losing consciousness.

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CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE LAST TO KNOW

consciousness is often “the last to know.” Visual, auditory, and other kinds of sensory information move through the world (and our nervous system) at different rates. The light waves and sound waves emitted the moment the tennis ball makes contact with your racket, for example, do not arrive at your eyes and ears at the same time, and the impact felt by your hand holding the racket occurs at yet another interval. To complicate matters further, the signals perceived by your hands, eyes, and ears travel different distances through your nervous system to reach your brain (your hands are a lot farther away from your brain than your ears are). Only after all the relevant input has been received by the brain do the signals get synchronized and enter your conscious experience through a process called “binding”—whereby you see, hear, and feel the ball hit the racket all in the same instant

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