Where Does Consciousness Go When You Sleep_ Gentle Psychology for Sleep
You close your eyes. You drift. The world disappears. You are not dead. You are not unconscious in the medical sense. Your brain is still active. Your heart is still beating. But you are not there. Where do you go?Consciousness is not a thing. Consciousness is a process. When you fall asleep, the process does not stop. It changes. The brain regions responsible for self-awareness, metacognition, and executive function quiet down. The regions responsible for emotion, memory, and sensory processing remain active. You are still experiencing. You are just not reflecting on the experiencing. The…
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