When my sister got her wisdom teeth out the general anesthesia only knocked her out for about 15 minutes. She woke up to the oral surgeon on top of her working hard to get the teeth out. But it worked well enough she couldn’t respond.
And she had a c-section when she had the twins. She said she remembered seeing her intestines being manipulated. I assume she should have been asleep for that.
One of her twins needs a lot of anesthesia to knock her out too.
But yeah that is terrifying.
When I had the feeding tube (PEG – google it) put in they had to keep me awake, but nearly numb for about half the procedure so I wouldn’t burp. They put four big holes in my stomach and it hurt like hell but I couldn’t really do anything about it. Then I remember the doctor saying “knock him out”.. Woke up 12 hours later covered in my own stomach juices. Luckily I had thought ahead and brought spare boxers.
Got killer pain pills for the that. And that night I was in the hospital I would wake up in serious pain and I would hit the buzzer and the nurse would come in and I would say “barbiturates please”.. And then in 30 seconds it was the best feeling ever and then a minute after that I would be asleep for the next three hours.
But yeah, waking up in the middle of surgery is up there with the worst.