11. It is not always conscious of it.
I grant that the soul, in a waking man, is never without thought, because it is
the condition of being awake. But whether sleeping without dreaming be not an affection of the whole man, mind
as well as body, may be worth a waking man's consideration; it being hard to conceive that anything should think
and not be conscious of it. If the soul doth think in a sleeping man without being conscious of it, I ask whether,
during such thinking, it has any pleasure or pain, or be capable of happiness or misery? I am sure the man is not;
no more than the bed or earth he lies on. For to be happy or miserable without being conscious of it, seems to me
utterly inconsistent and impossible. Or if it be possible that the soul can, whilst the body is sleeping, have its
thinking, enjoyments, and concerns, its pleasures or pain, apart, which the man is not conscious of nor partakes
in,--it is certain that Socrates asleep and Socrates awake is not the same person; but his soul when he sleeps, and
Socrates the man, consisting of body and soul, when he is waking, are two persons: since waking Socrates has no
knowledge of, or concernment for that happiness or misery of his soul, which it enjoys alone by itself whilst he
sleeps, without perceiving anything of it; no more than he has for the happiness or misery of a man in the Indies,
whom he knows not. For, if we take wholly away all consciousness of our actions and sensations, especially of
pleasure and pain, and the concernment that accompanies it, it will be hard to know wherein to place personal
identity.
