Trigger warning: description of medical procedure. Yes pain seems more like the interpretation of sense data, like if something sounds nice or tastes good? Wh

Trigger warning: description of medical procedure. Yes pain seems more like the interpretation of sense data, like if something sounds nice or tastes good? When I had an operation under local anesthetic I still felt the knife cutting into me, but was able to interpret it as not painful? This is how opiates (for pain relief) have been described to me -- still allowing you to feel the sensations but allowing you to not 'feel' the pain. Perhaps seeing with human biology knowledge can tell me why this is wrong!?