What does it feel like to be under anesthesia? is it like being high?

Lose time: Many of my patients state that the time under anesthesia is like lost time --not sleep. They have no sense of what happened during the period of anesthesia and it is like they went through time.

Amnesia: Most people do not have recollection of anesthesia because they are given medications, which causes memory loss for the time they had the procedure. If it is sedation, they may say it was the best sleep in my life. Many recollections depend on the medications which were given. For most people it is neutral experience.

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.

No: It is simply like falling asleep. No buzz, no high, no nothing.