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You don't lose your consciousness when you fall asleep. You time travel to the point where you wake up.
by csomar 3y ago
You don't lose your consciousness when you fall asleep. You time travel to the point where you wake up.
- IshKebab 3y agoThat's a distinction without a difference.
- MagicMoonlight 3y agoThat’s not true though. If that were the case you wouldn’t be able to sleep off an argument. Sleep clears the system and reboots it. That’s why all your short term memory gets wiped too if it wasn’t written to disk.
- RoyalHenOil 3y agoAs someone who has some oddities around sleep and consciousness (sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, self-awareness during the process of falling asleep, and a couple of other similar experiences that are extremely difficult to describe), which I suspect may caused by undiagnosed narcolepsy, it is clear to me that sleep is a much more complex process than that and does not necessarily involve loss of consciousness. Indeed, even people with normal, healthy sleep patterns still dream during the REM portion of sleep, even if they do not remember it later. Consciousness is not an on/off thing.