conscious awareness
Alert mental presence
Conscious awareness is the state of being awake and perceiving one's own existence, thoughts, and surroundings.
The phrase is somewhat redundant—awareness already implies consciousness—but appears in psychology and philosophy to emphasize subjective experience as distinct from unconscious processes: Meditation cultivates conscious awareness of the present moment.
- attentionFocused mental awareness
- paying attentionDirecting focus toward something
- present momentCurrent point in time
- sensePerception or judgment
- introspectionObserving one's own mind
inner voice · focus · meditation · metacognition · empathy · awake · perception · self-regulation · notice · self-concept · sentience · stillness · letting go · mind body · self-monitoring · qualia · pause · reasoning
- attentionattention, focus, focused, attentiveness, focused attention
conscious awarenessunconsciousness
Complete lack of awareness
unawareness · coma · sleep · oblivion · anesthesia
conscious awarenessmindlessness
Lack of awareness
automatic pilot · autopilot · automaticity · unawareness · reflexive action
conscious awarenessthe unconscious
Mind beyond awareness
unconscious mind · subconscious · unconscious processes · dissociation · subliminal perception
conscious, consciousness, consciously, unconscious, unconsciously, unconsciousness, conscience, conscientious, conscientiously