cheetah, that sounds like a bad experience. Maybe you can go over your worries with the nurse at our pre-op visit and get some reassurance.

I actually look fondly back at my experience of coming out of anesthesia. I was in the recovery room, which was a big room with all sorts of beds and IVs and machines. And it was in the winter so they had decorated it with all these silvery, glittery stars hanging from the ceiling with transparent fishline. I remember coming very slowly to consciousness and hearing voices and sensing movement and slowly opening my eyes, just slits and seeing all this "stuff" and the glittery stars rotating above. I wasn't quite sure where I was. It seemed very surreal. I actually loved it. I remember closing my eyes again and dozing off a bit, or just being conscious of noise, then opening my eyes again and seeing the scene. It was all very gentle, as if I was viewing the world through gauze. No one nagged me to keep my eyes open or stay awake. My vital signs were fine, no need to rush me through the recovery process. I woke up when I woke up and remember it as the best part of the whole surgery/anesthesia experience.

I'd kind of like to do that part of it again.