If you sleep for years like that. How do you not notice that things have changed when you wake up?
I think he simply didn't WANT to know. He suppressed it because he couldn't acknowledge that he wasn't human.
If he's sleeping randomly while traveling, he might not know the place well enough to notice a difference...
yeah, that's true, the old man's skeleton should have been a clue-in...
If you sleep for years like that. How do you not notice that things have changed when you wake up?