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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
Yes, 込む is an auxiliary verb. It connotes leaping or being consumed or doing something very hardcore. 飛び込む, 入り込む, etc. I think it tends to connote intensity, but there are exceptions.
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So if I well understood you, in my first example it is not simply "the man continued to sleep", but the nueance is "he continued to sleep <no matter what happened before to him>".