When I had my teeth drilled they really only numbed my mouth.
I had been hoping for the nitrous but they didn't do that.
Still kind of disorienting but mostly I concerned myself with keeping my saliva in my mouth and also eating dinner without tastebuds.
Dad: if you shut everything out and refuse to engage in life and society, it's like your problems don't really exist after all!
Mom: overreaction is the only reaction.