I feel it's more like a gap in memory. We are usually not trained to remember our dreams. Even if I'm waken up in a non-REM phase, there is usually a kind of re

I feel it's more like a gap in memory. We are usually not trained to remember our dreams. Even if I'm waken up in a non-REM phase, there is usually a kind of remembrance of how I felt during sleep. Edit: Made my statement more vague. There is definitely more to sleep though than turning consciousness off and on again.