I believe that when you go under during surgery you are “near death”. I’ve experienced it. For me, personally, it was like time travel. I took my second breath, and in the middle of the breath I was waking up in the recovery room, over an hour later.
Went for a cardiac bypass, twenty years ago. Was waiting on the gurney, in a curtained off space, and the nurse came in and said "This will help you relax..." and shot something into the IV...
Next thing I knew, I was gagging on a tube down my throat, a few hours later, packed in pillows. Didn't even had time for some pithy last words...
LOL, my first question is always “did they do the surgery?”
LOL...
Several years after my death experience, I had 2 major surgeries. Both times I woke on the operating table, arms strapped to boards and the tubes still in. Sure cause a panic of the team!
My response to anesthesia changed. Same thing happened in a colonoscopy. Didn’t bother me as much as the Dr.
Someone should write a book on the crazy things people in recovery say.
I think that’s how Muchael Jackson spent his last few years.
Sort of the same with my most recent accident (Concrete face-plant while biking). Riding down the street, then remembering some EMS folks pulling me around in the back of an ambulance. In and out of consciousness until I stabilized in the trauma center. Do not remember anything out of body. That last one was a epiphany...