So then, your consciousness, which is basically you, either does not exist or is asleep.
It's not like I am unaware of these distinctions. My grandmother was a JW, and we had interesting discussions while she was alive Thanks for your info.
It’s Biblically sound and an understanding that is not just limited to Jehovah’s Witnesses. The problem of perceiving an apparent conflict arises in latching onto one, for example “soul sleep,” to the exclusion of the other, for example “to be absent the body is to be in the presence of the Lord.”
That soul and spirit are not synonymous is readily demonstrated via numerous passages, both in translation and particularly in the original language(s). And so, the apparent conflict does not exist when all the related Biblical passages across Old and New Testament are taken as a whole.
The conclusion reached via the Bible is that man is a triune being, having been created by the triune God in His image.