What does it feel like to be put on general anesthesia?

Nothing: By definition, general anesthesia involves loss of consciousness. Therefore, there should be "no" awareness. The experience of anesthesia "induction, " the going-off-to-sleep, may be variable and depends upon the urgency of the surgery and your general medical condition. Nonetheless, even if a "longer" induction is required, drugs used to lessen your anxiety will erase memories anyway no worry!

Nothing: Falling asleep and is generally euphoric and rapid taking only seconds. Once under you experience nothing.

Very Few Know: With modern anesthetics we try and shut down the memory of the patient before they go to the or. Once they can't remember what happened, it is very hard to find out what they felt as they went to sleep. Without sedatives the very medication that is used to put people to sleep blocks memory formation, so we have the same problem. Same with waking up. Patients come to in the pacu after the op.