Except he wasn't sleeping, he was broken and presumably nonexistent, so that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But he's not going to worry about it right now. Maybe when he decides to think about it and put it in a more human context, he'll put two and two together.

Right now, he's much more interested in the implication he's not sure he caught. He tilts his head to one side and looks at the unhelpful stranger, skeptical but interested. "You'd put me back as a human?"