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People say this but I don't understand why. I don't think there's any reason to believe we meaningfully cease to be "continuous" while asleep, in fact we're not even unconscious when we sleep, our brain keeps processing stimuli, in parts of the cycle we dream, etcetera.
While sleep isn't the right thought experiment, think of cryogenics: it works for the wood frog, which can come back from being completely frozen solid, so there's no reason to believe that our consciousness can't be fully interrupted and resumed.
This isn't true. Dreaming is only during certain periods of the sleep cycle. Through many parts of the night, you are truly gone.
Which ones? I'm never truly gone still in my bed. And as someone who has died coming back from death is not the same as waking up. One I lost days of memory after being brought back, I don't loose days when I wake up every morning.
What do you mean? You're only dreaming during REM sleep. That's only part of the sleep cycle. And the loss of memory is irrelevant here. We're talking about continuity of consciousness and its implications from a philosophical perspective. We're not talking about your soul being out of your body or something.
At least I think that's what you're trying to say? Some of your grammar makes your comment difficult to parse.