Am I the only one who thinks we are asking the wrong questions here? Our consciousness is restored when we wake up. But this consciousness can only be consider

Am I the only one who thinks we are asking the wrong questions here? Our consciousness is restored when we wake up. But this consciousness can only be considered as such when we are aware of it. Can there be consciousness without self-awareness? Is a deer conscious if not self-aware of its own consciousness? Is an organism with a primitive nervous system conscious? One that purely interacts with its world through simple stimuli? If you sleep and wake up, does it matter if it's you or not? If we think that our consciousness is purely manifested through our physical, neural connections, than are we ever different, original, born or dead? A physical phenomena such as consciousness is infinitely malleable just like matter. Being born and then when dead, do you stop existing? Since you're physical, what prevents those same physical patterns emerging again and making you exist once again? Just like when you're asleep, or under anesthesia. Your consciousness, your awareness of time and space stops existing, and once you wake up, you can proclaim that you're still you, because your memories and sense of self are still intact. But what if they weren't? You'd believe you're somewhere else, right? What if you simply died and woke up in another body? But what does that mean? Reincarnation is possible? But wait, if reincarnation is possible, does that mean that everyone who was born and died, will exist once again? Is there a queue for this stuff? N amount of people born out of nothing, are now on a queue to be reborn as something else? Doesn't make sense. But ask, did you ever truly exist? You became out of nothing, rather we consider it "nothing", but again, it's just matter, and now you're something, and then you think you'll either go nowhere, or somewhere else? Another universe? Another body? If two clones exist, do both of them experience reality, does consciousness switch between those bodies rapidly like it's something that exists independently, or do both of them exist at the same time? If one of them dies, does the other consciousness merge into the other? Or dies it go into nonexistence, or does it get reborn? Seriously, it just does not make sense. The questions don't either. We need to approach this differently. What prevents someone from "not existing". What shackles are there to keep your consciousness to be entirely unique and never reproducible? If we consider it's physical, there are none. I don't know if all of these rambles made sense, but this reply may sink with the ship, so I just had to get it out.