How is going under and coming out of anesthesia?

It depends: Depending on the type of medication used to provide anesthesia, your experience may vary. Generally, you receive a sedative such as Midazolam which acts to relax you prior to inducing general anesthesia. On emergence from anesthesia, you may expect to be drowsy for a brief period until the effects of the anesthetic slowly wear off.

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.