One experience I had with an anesthesiologist was pretty much them putting the mask on me, a moment or so passes and I ask “wait, aren’t you gonna ask me to count down from 10 or something?” and the guy was like “…what? oh, right, uh, sure… countdown from 10 or whatever.” “10-- zzzzzzzzzzzz”

More like “this is just a little oxygen” and then you’re asleep.

I woke up during the last bit of my first cataract surgery (was awake through the entirety of the other one). I remember being in the hallway, waiting to be rolled into the surgery room and then waking up in a panic with one of the doctors calmly repeating, “Don’t freak out.”