When my gorgeous girl cat of 18 years died, I grieved more than for my father.

And still most people who have never experienced it think that it's just "being sad". Nope. I wish I would have felt anything like being sad when I was clinically depressed... at least it would have been something else than this emptiness... I was more brokkoli than human.

When I first met my wife I was seriously alarmed at the pain she went through every month. Never realised it could be so crippling. I almost called an ambulance on one occasion.

This is sometimes referred to as "ADHD paralysis" which may not be a perfect term but is easier for neurotypicals to understand.

Yeah, one of the worst part of depression is that you don't even feel love for your most loved ones anymore. You know you love them, but you don't feel anything but emptiness.

Oh eww, I know that feeling. Or you stand up and it happens, it’s so ick 😣

And it can be loud to you while no one else hears it. I don't want to be triggered by lip-smacking and it is certainly far beyond a little annoyance. Not something I can 'just ignore.'

I've been under a couple times and it is not like sleeping at all. When sleeping you have a sense of time, with anesthesia you go out and then you come back in what feels like it could be a blink even though it was hours - absolutely no sense of time.

What a wonderful way to describe death. Going to the place you where before you were born. Non existent from the Big Bang to your day of birth and from the time of your death until the last atomic bonds are rendered apart. We only live in the blink of an eye.

It has to be the closest thing to dying that we ever come back from. It's just lights out. When you wake up there's no memory, and you don't have any idea how long you've been out.

If I understand correctly, there are two components -- one to deaden senses, one to block memory from forming. The memory block is what really gives the sense of nothingness, of no time having passed.

I've been under twice and this perfectly describes what it's like. When I came round the second time I informed everyone in the recovery room that the anaesthetist looked like a cute kangaroo. General merriment ensued.

Untrue. People dream all the time under anesthesia.

I think it's the coolest thing ever, unadulterated peace, and really funny to hear about the things you did or said coming out of it; If you don't get sick first!!

Waking up from it can be its own entry here. It's so weird feeling your brain reconnect with your body.

It does feel like a blink, but it also feels like the best sleep you ever had for some reason lol

I hate it, I hate the feeling of trying to come out of it, like you are suffocating in molasses and can't move your limbs to get out of it and breathe properly. You're sure you are coming up out of a grave like a freaking mindless zombie.

I remember when I had a my neck surery from a broken a neck, waiting around for teh surgeon to come. I remember asking when I am hoing to have this surgery, the nurse was like, honey it's over you are in recovery now....like it really blew my mind!

It was just like sleeping but woke up feeling I weigh a ton, that's it. Neither post, nor comments mean a shıt.

I woke up from a long Surgery and went from being deeply unconscious to asking the Dr standing next to my bed for tea please, the Dr was very surprised and more than a bit startled. I agree with others that it is not like normal sleep at all.

I got this feeling once when I passed out. I've only ever passed out once in my life but this was the exact feeling. But it was weird because a part of the few minutes I was out I felt like I'm in a dream, I was (sub) conscious, then I'm totally out, no sense of time, and then I'm back to dreaming and then I "woke up" or came back to when I heard my own voice telling me "you're not asleep, get up". Weird af

i was worried before the first time i was going to be totally under for a procedure - getting all four wisdom teeth taken out - but now i find it fascinating and even enjoyable for the novelty of it. the closest it's been to sleep was with my endometrial ablation, where the anesthesia dropped me super hard as usual, but my awareness faded back in afterwards, slowly. i remember laying there listening to two nurses talk about random stuff until one of them finally said "there she is!" i don't remember making a sound or moving, but there must have been some indication that i was surfacing.

It's helpful when the anesthesiologist talks you through what's going to happen so you aren't scared.

I gave "birth" under general anaesthesia. So traumatising because of that sense of nothingness. Waking up in what seems like a blink of an eye and having your whole life be different. Everything has already happened and you missed all of it. It's awful.

I went through this for the first time in my life just a couple of months ago. Honestly and contrary to what I was expecting in a way, it wasn't scary. I just was... and then I wasn't. If this is everything there is after dying I'm waaaaay more than ok with the idea. I think my last hang ups about dying have been made redundant by experiencing general anesthesia.

Experienced this last week (9 days ago), and I am still trying to regain some semblance of a sleep pattern. I went from regularly going to bed at 9 pm and waking at 5 am, to not falling asleep until 2 or 3 am, and sleeping until 10 am or later.

I fainted a few weeks ago for the first time ever. I don't think I was out for very long. When I came to, it felt like I'd been asleep, but with no dreams. It actually wasn't bad at all.

I think that this is what death must be like