I wonder about that. During the deepest part of sleep does your brain have enough activity to maintain a continuous stream of consciousness? If you go through two sleep cycles in a night does yesterday you die, and you from the first sleep cycle who only dreamed die, and you’re a new consciousness in the morning?
Going under deep anesthesia brought up these questions for me: if my consciousness was interrupted, am I the same person? Ultimately I don’t believe I’ll ever know, and must seek to become comfortable with that discomfort.
I wonder about that. During the deepest part of sleep does your brain have enough activity to maintain a continuous stream of consciousness? If you go through two sleep cycles in a night does yesterday you die, and you from the first sleep cycle who only dreamed die, and you’re a new consciousness in the morning?
Dreaming is just the brain butchering who you were and placing whatever’s left in storage as decaying trophies.
Going under deep anesthesia brought up these questions for me: if my consciousness was interrupted, am I the same person? Ultimately I don’t believe I’ll ever know, and must seek to become comfortable with that discomfort.