Ideas from 'Confessions of a Philosopher' by Bryan Magee [1997], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Confessions of a Philosopher (1st ed)' by Magee,Bryan [Phoenix 1998,0-75380-471-9]].

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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection
Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night?
                        Full Idea: As a child it was incomprehensible to me that I did not experience going to sleep, and never remembered it. When my sister said 'Nobody remembers that', I just thought 'How does she know?'
                        From: Bryan Magee (Confessions of a Philosopher [1997], Ch.I)
                        A reaction: This is actually evidence for something - that we do not have some sort of personal identity which is separate from consciousness, so that "I am conscious" would literally mean that an item has a property, which it can lose.