What is it like to get twilight anesthesia?

Sedation: "Twilight" usually describes M.A.C. anesthesia. It entails varying levels of sedation for a procedure. It does not imply General Anesthesia (loss of consciousness, inability to respond purposely to stimuli). With "twilight" anesthesia, you can expect to receive medication to keep you comfortable during a procedure. These meds help with anxiety, pain, and often lead to a nice sleep-like state.

=moderate sedation: We no longer use the term twilight but rather categorize sedation into mild, moderate and deep. To make it more complicated there are no clear lines defining each stage but rather a continuum where mild is where the pt can respond to verbal questions or commands; moderate is when arousable by physical stimuli ( shaking a shoulder or moderate pain) and deep is where painful stimuli will not awaken