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Question about anesthetic: WTF happened to me?

I went in for a gastroscopy today and they put me under a general anesthetic. When I came out of it, I was laying flat on my back and started to *press buttons* in the air above me that obviously weren't there. The nurse asks me, "honey, what are you doing?" I reply, "I'm checking Reddit on my phone."

"you don't have a phone hun. Are you seeing things?"

"Apparently so..."

That's never happened to me from anesthetic before. Is it normal to hallucinate after coming out of it? What is the anesthetic doing to my brain that made me do that? And why did I do *that* instead of something else?

**Edit**

Just so everyone knows, I'm not confused about wether I was just sedated or if I had a general anesthetic. I have all the prep forms here telling me about general anesthetic and what I can or can't do after the procedure fr 24hrs.
gpt
you tend not to have a general anesthetic for a gastroscopy, usually they just sedate you with benzos. You were just hallucinating from the benzos friend. cool huh?

theres an anesthesiologist on askscience somewhere would might shed some light on why it happens.