Archaeologists have repeatedly found skulls with neat round holes (or even more than one) in the layers of the Neolithic period. The overgrown edges indicated that the person continued to live after the operation. Scientists have found that people who have undergone craniotomy experience the same feeling of happiness as consumers of hallucinogens
Throughout its history, man has more than once had a strange desire to do something with his skull. Someone, like the legendary King of Britain Arthur, whose skull was found by the same archaeologists, preferred to make a huge hole in it. And someone, like the priests of the ancient Egyptians, Scythians, Maya and Inca Indians, deliberately deformed their skulls: the head was tied with bandages in infancy, and a piece of board was sometimes tied to the forehead. As a result, the head turned out to be elongated, flattened from the sides, but with a nobly sloping forehead.
All these quirks of ancestors have been known for a long time, but they have not received a sufficient explanation within the framework of historical science. The only thing that we managed to find out on purely archaeological material is that only the skulls of the priests - the elite of the ancient world - were trepanned and deformed. But to the question of why this was done, historians answered very vaguely. Of the most common versions: for aesthetic reasons; to remove evil spirits from the head; and in general - savages, what to take from them? But the answer came from where they did not expect.
Dutch scientist Bark Hugos in the 60s of the last century studied the effects of drugs on humans. And suddenly I found out that sometimes people who have undergone craniotomy experience the same feeling of happiness as consumers of hallucinogens. Moreover, in contrast to the use of alcoholic beverages and drugs, trepanation does not cause a hangover syndrome.
Perhaps this is somehow connected with the fontanelle - the "meeting point" of the bones of the skull, which remains open in infants, but overgrows in adults over the years. At least two things do not raise doubts: on all turtles known to archaeologists, trepanation was carried out precisely in the fontanel area, and the phrase "happy as a child" exists in almost all languages of the world.
The people in the world today went reading, and of course there were those who wanted to test the ancient methods of achieving nirvana in practice. For example, a certain Joe Melon lives in England. He lives and feels great with a hole in his head. So wonderful that, looking at Joe's childhood happiness, his wife Jenny also decided to part with a part of the skull.
Since such services are not provided by either private, municipal or insurance medicine in the UK (self-harm after all), she resorted to the help of a "local craftsman". Armed specifically for this with a purchased electric drill, he drilled holes in Jenny's skull around the circumference of the alleged hole - as they do when getting rid of a jammed door lock. The trepanation was soon completed. The operation, which took place under local anesthesia, took only 3 minutes.
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After 10 minutes Jenny Melon could get up. And when I got up, I felt, in her words, "extraordinary lightness, happiness and a surge of energy." It remains in this state to this day. The only thing the Melon couple warns against is the danger of infecting during trepanation. As for the brain damage … It seems that those who decide on such an operation are in the least danger.