Originally posted by long pig
The "Flashback" was a dream. He dreamed it because he was knocked out.
He did regain conciousness in a matter of seconds, but he was indeed knocked out. Both times.
He was just reminiscing. Why you ask? So we would have a clue about why he asking what Sabretooth meant by "Quod Sum Eris". He wasn't knocked out, he wasn't dreaming... well... maybe he was day dreaming, but it was just a flash back so the reader whould know a) Sabretooth and Wolverine's first fight had been retconned and b) so we wouldn't be left in the dark by the conversation that was about to start.