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It can. Sixty-one year old Alex Lenkei did not feel a thing during his 80-minute long, painful, and extensive thumb operation. He completed the surgery under hypnosis and without any anesthetic in a British Hospital.

Alex is a professional hypnotist and been practicing since he was 16. But recently he was suffering from arthritis, and a walnut size extra bone at the base of this thumb needed to be removed. The operation required crushing the bone with saw and chisel, cutting off small portions, and fusing together the exposed area. All the steps involved in the 80-minute operation normally cause excruciating pain, and anesthetic is a must. But Alex refused anesthetic and instead put himself under hypnosis which took him about 30 seconds.

Even the doctors were surprised and said that his heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing pattern did not change at all during the operation proving that he did not feel any pain. Throughout the surgery, Alex was conscious about every little movement and sound around him: conversations among surgeons; sound of the tools including the hammer and saw; and even the sound of his bone cracking.

The only thing that made Alex feel a bit disappointed was the lack of any juicy gossip amongst the doctors.