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Consciousness is often said to disappear in deep, dreamless sleep. We argue that this assumption is oversimplified. Unless dreamless sleep is defined as unconscious from the outset there are good empirical and theoretical reasons for saying that a range of different types of sleep experience, some of which are distinct from dreaming, can occur in all stages of sleep.
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When I'm asleep I'm not experiencing shit. Close eyes, moment of black, awake again the next day.
This is not the normal human experience. Check if you're a robot?
My diagnostics said "all systems normal" so that can't be it
You just don't remember your dreams.
That's probably true. I have definitely had some dreams. But maybe only fifty over thirty-seven years.