I mean, it's not far off it. It's like, a similar thing, but on a whole other scale.

Like when you doze off real fkin tired, you might wake up and have a bit of trouble with time. But with anaesthesia, you know you haven't just got trouble with remembering where you were or when, but someone's just gone in and taken a huge chunk out.

When you're dozed off and confused, it's closer to being black-out drunk. You sort of may have memories about the time, just needs the right trigger. Like someone saying a fun thing that happen ed which you recall, or when dozing off, you remember having heard the credits of a show you know that airs at a certain time.

Like as in, you're just really uncertain. With anaesthesia, you're certain you don't know what the fuck happened.

It's like the difference between being an agnostic and an atheist. One is really sure and one's very much on the edge.

But it definitely depends on what kind of anaesthesia. There's light, heavier and full-on. I'm sure an anaesthetist could classify them better, but basically one is slight sedation, then heavy sedation/light anaesthesia and then "proper" anaesthesia. The first would be something like perhaps a benzo (valium, diapam etc) or some laughing gas through your nose. Second is like ketamine/fentanyl or other somewhat fast acting substances. And third is just proper knockout byebye and that's propofol. That's what Michael Jackson died of. And if he had to take that to sleep...? I mean I can see the appeal, it's like an off-button for the brain, but I don't believe you really get rest while in a state like that, not the way we need.

"In cryo, you don't dream at all. Feels more like a fifth of tequila and an ass-kicking."

That's a bit dramatic but I just rewatched the Avatars and popped into my head

Propofol is the one which knocks your light right out, the medium tier with ketamine/opiates is the one which makes people all weird and giddy. (Which is sort of weird to see from Europe that Americans use for dentistry. I mean I would take it, Finnish docs would just never do that, because anaesthesia has risks and pain and trauma apparently doesn't.)

So to answer your question... sort of? Like in the way that a tsunami is sort of like the wave you make in a puddle. But you know, different scales...