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 7 before the next thing you know, you’re waking up groggy in an entirely different room, hours later, surgery completed. Or 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. What follows can only be described as a living nightmare. Filled with a cocktail of medications to 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 that they’re awake. They can feel every surgical instrument moving around inside them, and yet, there’s absolutely nothi