It is totally ok to lose consciousness during a session. You have learned everything. For an experiment rent a movie that you have not previewed before. And have your friend, partner watch the movie while you have gone to bed. Noise from the movie will come into the room but you are asleep. The next day watch that movie. Suprise you will know that movie key actors, pitch line, climax. It works for myself and my children it is almost as if our consciouness never really turns completely off but running in the background.