concept of self

[riih.qarojamahoamaan]

This is really old a joke:

a man went to lodge in a hotel, but the hotel keeper said there was no empty room, there was only a possibility to sleep in the same room with a policeman. The policeman did not object, so the man had a second bed in the same room. "Don't forget", said the man to the hotel keeper, "to wake me up at 6 o'clock at dawn". The hotel keeper indeed woke up the first man at 6 o'clock, the policeman was still soundly sleeping, his uniform on a chair. The other man, sleepy as he was, in twighlight, got the policeman's uniform and put it on, then he went in the toilet to shave and saw himself in the mirror, wearing the uniform. He said: oh, that stupid hotel keeper! instead of waking me up, he woke up the policeman!