Yes - AWAKE - as in screaming and kicking...
Several nurses/doctors had to hold me down and the last thing I remenber was the ether mask coming down over my face...
This happened in a fairly small town where the doctors and nurses were all family friends of ours.
I got teased (good-naturedly) by them about it the whole time I was growing up.
No big deal back then, but nowadays ... they'd probably get their pants sued off.
OK so I guessed right.
My point is that as bad as your experience was, there is a real chance that something even worse could happen now which is being awake, feeling everything, but not being able to move so much as an eyelid.
Despite the obvious fear mongering in this article, the "awakening during surgery" is astoundingly common (the article says 1 to 2 per 1000 which I think is about right) and to some degree preventable if certain monitoring equipment is purchased and used.
And I think this is a legitimate concern.
BTW to have something like that happen is bad enough. To be mocked about it afterwards - that truly sucks.
When people do have this type of thing happen to them there are often severe psychological sequelae - it definitely has been known to do a number on folks' heads. To make light of it or exploit it - seems just wrong to me.