Lydia, you may be the very first advocate of werewolf rights. Power to the werewolves!
I LOLed!
Lydia, what this makes me think of is the fact that while I am awake, I of course remember all the things that have happened to me during waking hours, if not awfully well sometimes. Similarly, when I am falling asleep, I start to remember bits of the dream landscape I inhabit when asleep. At that point, I'm awake enough to know that's what I'm doing and remember the fact later when I'm fully awake, but not the details. When I'm really asleep though, my life history becomes all those events I've experienced dreaming, especially in chapters of recurring dreams. I have a dream past, and a waking past.
I think it must be very much the same for Chris and the werewolf.