What does being put under anasthesia feel like?

General Anesthesia: Essentially under general anesthesia, patients lack awareness, have deep sedation, adequate pain control and are relaxed for the procedure to be performed. People often say they have vivid dreams while under general anesthesia and often don't remember being put "under" until they are awoken. Under anesthesia is usually general but not limited to mac, deep sedation or regional anesthesia.

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.