On 31 May 2015 at 03:54, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 , LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've heard of "Altered States", but what is this "alert status" business? >> > > That business is just another way of saying "consciousness". > > >> > (And why do you think I should remember falling asleep, when short term >> memory doesn't operate during sleep?) >> > > But short term memory does operate when you're NOT sleeping, and if there > are only 2 conscious states, on and off, so you should be able to remember > the last instant that conscious switch was in the on position. Can you? I > can't. > > Actually, my apologies, I got that the wrong way around before. What I should have said is that your short term memory is the only type of memory that DOES operate while you're asleep. What *doesn't* happen during sleep is transferring the contents of short term memory into medium term memory.
But I still don't see how you expect to remember the last instant you were conscious. Since your short-to-medium term memory transfer doesn't operate when you're asleep, you would expect to NOT remember the 5 minutes (approx) before you fall asleep, and to remember the last 5 minutes of your dreams. Which is my experience. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
