Steps Toward a Neurophenomenology of Conscious Sleep

A Reply to Jennifer M. Windt

Author

Evan Thompson

evan.thompson @ ubc.ca

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Commentator

Jennifer M. Windt

jennifer.windt @ monash.edu

Monash University

Melbourne, Australia

Editors

Thomas Metzinger

metzinger @ uni-mainz.de

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität

Mainz, Germany

Jennifer M. Windt

jennifer.windt @ monash.edu

Monash University

Melbourne, Australia

Windt’s groundbreaking commentary expands and enriches my target article by presenting new considerations against the default neuroscience view that “consciousness is that which disappears in dreamless sleep,” by proposing a refined conceptual and phenomenological analysis of dreamless sleep experience, and by offering a refined taxonomy of dreamless sleep experiences. These contributions provide new conceptual and methodological tools for the neurophenomenology of sleep and consciousness.

Keywords

Consciousness | Dreamless sleep | Neurophenomenology | Phenomenal selfhood | Self | Time consciousness | Vedānta | Yoga