Talk:Re: Chapter 42/@comment-79.207.25.177-20150829163512/@comment-25047329-20150830212843

That is true, "sleep" is often a metaphor for death. Maybe when the official English translations come out we'll get something different-more accurate. Until then though, I have to use fan translations and the way I interpret it, it makes sense that he's aware that he's losing his memories. He knows he has brain damage and references it and the strange thing is that he talks about "sleep" as if it were temporary. It just doesn't come off as someone fully expecting to die to me.

Everything feels like a mental state that's awarely being unraveled. Like he knew that his consciousness (psychologically, not his state of waking) was deteriorating. While the translation can be said to be iffy, it wasn't a dying dream. While being lobotomized, Kaneki starts counting down like when he was being tortured by Jason. He doesn't stop counting until we see his two haves agree to "rest for a bit", so the implication was that it was a hallucination.

Although, since we interpret the chapter differently, I reckon we agree to disagree. I personally feel that he was aware that his memories were deteriorating at the time and that it makes sense for his character to be at ease with it given the circumstances.