What if aneshetics don’t actually put you to sleep?

What if anesthetics don’t actually put you to sleep? What if you were paralyzed every time you were “put under” and it only appeared to the outside world that you were asleep? What if you could feel every cut? And all this anesthetic did was paralyze you temporarily and inhibit memories from forming about your surgery? What if every surgery with anesthetics in the history of mankind worked this way?

Millions of hours of excruciating pain and suffering.

Millions of hours of excruciating pain and suffering. How would we know? Is this acceptable? Why? Why not? If you think it is acceptable because you would have no memory of it; what if you knew you had a surgery tonight and this is how anesthetics worked? Obviously this is unacceptable.

Maybe this is acceptable because not only do we know that we wont remember it, but that we wont have any anxiety beforehand because it is unlikely that this will happen or that to most people this would never have crossed their minds? Did I just cause a lot of anxiety for writing this? And if the pain and suffering do not matter because we will have no memory of the event, then WHAT ABOUT LIFE? Does life not matter? Obviously we will have no memory of it after we die. So why is this different?

Sorry if I depressed you about life or caused you anxiety.
Should we not spread this idea around?
I don’t know.

This sounds like a drug induced post, but really, I don’t even use drugs.