You're told not to drive or sign legal documents for a week after in Australia. That's a very long time to be considered "compos mentis" in my book. Brain plasticity being a "thing" and psychoactive drugs like ketamine or psylocibin being capable of encouraging brain rewiring why would you be "the same person" after that experience: I would argue that literally your brain changed. Well. Anaesthesia is not well understood and the models of what it does are unclear. You think you came back unaltered. Ask an anaesthetist about older patients and mental decline.
I felt different. I felt partially robbed of time (and I know for a fact I was alert for 20min after one, being interviewed for a drug trial, a period of time I have no recall, except what I was told by the consultant yet, somebody was answering questions...
In many cases patients receive relatively strong pain relief drugs after surgeries, such as opioids. Are you sure the recommendation you mentioned is not due to that rather than anesthesia?
What if the feeling of change is an illusion? Many people after doing shrooms think they felt unity with all life, but I am yet to see where that experience would let them better interact with fellow humans.
I felt different. I felt partially robbed of time (and I know for a fact I was alert for 20min after one, being interviewed for a drug trial, a period of time I have no recall, except what I was told by the consultant yet, somebody was answering questions...