I can't believe we are right back to this same debate. It is not that difficult to answer this question, for yourself. Follow all the advice for a traditional WILD, and you can experience, firsthand, what happens to your consciousness as you pass through different phases of sleep. You can hold onto your awareness for several hours, or even the whole night if you try.

Thor, it is a little hypocritical that you claim to rely so heavily on science and peer reviewed research for your arguments, when in reality you are doing just the opposite. You are cherrypicking information and nitpicking semantics to try to make it fit exactly into your hypothesis so you don't have to admit you are wrong. This is terrible scientific methodology. Science is not argument or debating, it is discovery and truth seeking.