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there's an internal subconscious process taking place when it comes to physical pain: say your arm gets cut off and the sensation of pain arrives from the peripheral nervous system to the central nervous system, it goes through a subconscious process before it comes to your conscious awareness. If it is not efficient for the sensation of pain to be brought to conscious awareness, the sensation will be blocked out subconsciously. Although the pain can still be felt consciously if the individual consciously thinks about it, the subconscious aspect will not bring the sensation of pain to conscious awareness unless the conscious aspect inquires it.

Conscious awareness of the arm being cut off is likely to cause panic -- where as if it is best for immediate survival for higher consciousness NOT to be aware of the arm being cut off, the subconscious aspect will not make higher consciousness aware of the pain.

Endorphins, and by extension opiates/opioids (which are agonists of the same receptors), are a part of this process.

A person on an opiate/opioid can still feel pain if they think about it - opiates do not physically block the sensation of pain.