For anyone who's been through surgery, you know it usually begins with a doctor telling you to count backwards from 10. The first thought upon hearing this is that you're not tired at all, and this seems like not nearly enough time. But then, funny enough, you make it to just seven before the next thing you know you're waking up groggy in an entirely different room, hours later, with the surgery completed. Or at at least that's most people's experience.

For an incredibly unlucky few, what comes next is one of the most disturbing things that

can happen to a person. Instead of waking up after the surgery, they wake up during the

surgery, and what follows can only be described as a living nightmare. Filled with a cocktail

of medications that keep them from moving, they're

awake, fully aware, and feeling everything. But horrifyingly, they're also paralyzed and unable

to move or tell anyone they're awake. And they can feel every surgical instrument moving

around inside them, and yet there's absolutely nothing they can do. These are some of the

horrifying incidents of people waking up during surgery.

And I'm going to be honest with all of you.

This is a topic I knew a little bit about, but upon really getting into it, I found

it to be so disturbing that I almost actually wish I didn't know about it after all.

So suffice to say, now more than ever, although the events in this video are fleeting and

nondescriptive, they are still highly disturbing.

Severe discretion is strongly advised.

In 2008, 44-year-old Donna of Manitoba went in for what was supposed to be a routine exploratory surgery.

She'd been battling severe abdominal pain and heavy bleeding for a while, and doctors hoped to finally pinpoint the cause.

Donna had been under general anesthesia before and never had a problem, so she trusts the process.

After all the necessary preparations, a nurse wheeled her into the operating room, reassuring her with all the usual words, don't worry, we'll take care of you. On the table, monitors were hooked up, a mask was placed over her face, and with a few deep breaths, she drifted off. The next thing Donna knew, she was awake, and at first she thought the surgery was over. General anesthesia has this way of

making you feel like you've time traveled with hours passing in what seems like the blink of an

eye. There was also a pleasant, hazy relaxation she felt the kind you get when anesthesia is

wearing off. But then she heard something else. It felt like the surgical team was still prepping.

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