The anticipation of undergoing surgery or anesthesia can cause psychological stress to patients which are manifested as anxiety.  The cause of patients‘ preoperative anxiety is multifactorial. It can be divided into three distinct dimensions of anxiety, 1) fear of the unknown. 2) Fear of the waiting period before surgery/anesthesia. 3) Fear of unconsciousness and other anxieties like fear of feeling ill, fear of postoperative nausea or vomiting fear of perioperative pain, fear of the discomfort of postoperative awakening fear of intraoperative awareness, fear for one’s life fear of not regaining consciousness, a fear of dying or remaining in coma, fear of anesthesia–induced physical or mental harm. This study puts in a effort to study the pre–operative sedation using oral clonidine vs oral gabapentine.