Was sedated to unconsciousness for surgery but have a memory of pain

Ok. So I got my wisdom teeth pulled today. I remember they first put an oxygen mask on my nose. It was just oxygen at first, then it turned to this gas that suddenly made me feel super tired and it felt like the world was moving in slow motion and I felt relaxed but I also knew it was making me slow on purpose. Then they stuck the needle in my arm, said something like "We're just going to relax you a bit" and that's where my aural/visual memory before the surgery stops (I went unconscious)...It felt like time ceased to exist and then suddently I was waking up, already transported to the recovery room (apparently I walked there, but I swear I didn't)....But somewhere in between there while I was asleep (I THINK)...I have a memory of feeling the very forceful pricks of the novocaine shots in my gums. I don't have a visual or aural memory of it. Was I actually not quite asleep yet when they gave me the shots? I'm confused. I'm not trying to act all paranoid or anything, like they gave me that Versed drug and they erased my memory making me think I was unconscious, NO. I'm not superstitious like that. I'm just wondering why I felt the pain and if that's normal.

P.S. I know there is a Y!Answers user out there whose only purpose on this website is to try to warn people about Versed, by copying and pasting this long-***, dramatic sounding description of the drug...You know who you are, the guy with the baby face avatar. Please don't bother trying to scare me about Versed again. The surgery is done.

This "a-little-bit-of-everything" medicine and the old guideline "when the patient stops complaining he's most likely dead" was the reason for the invention of the profession of "Anesthesiology". If I would drill around in you "gums" the result would be similar as to dentists giving anesthesia. You just witnessed what is known since 1872.

See versed does nothing for pain and a few people do remember..

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