TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) Mental Perceptual Recovery

The difference between Awareness and mere Consciousness.

In TBI you know there's consciousness and there is awareness ("waking up") It's universal. If the brain is compromised their is consciousness and awareness. 

Even waking from sleep, fighting drowsiness, or drinking compromise the brain. A traumatic Brain Injury is not the only way to experience universal things of brain compromises. Don't feel so alienated from it. Dealing with someone having a TBI is not so abnormal as someone in any compromised mental state, whether that be transient (passing) or not. However, dealing with such can be serious business you have to make decisions on, refer to section [Injury and Brain Injury].

Consciousness is inconsistency. It comes and goes in soft blurs, often not making sense upon reflection. Unrelated, randomized things get tied together in often violent ways. As when you combine to unalike ideas together, they don't always get along peaceably. In this way, kids cartoons begin to make vivid sense. Take SpongeBob for instance, he's a very randomized character with bright colors and a general apathy between characters, you don't see intimacy or bond form. It's very cartoonish. I'll explain in section [Mental Realizations: Concept Understanding]. The adult show The Simpsons is also very similar and it serves a similar purpose. But even shows like the original Fairy Odd Parents or Tom and Jerry can fall into this category. They are shows that don't really go into social bonding, intimacy, or deep thought, that are capable of being very random whilst generally always colorful. Color is important here, anything that makes something stand out of distinguishable; when your not yet in a state to conceptualize, you have to rely more on perceptalizing. Consciousness separate from awareness is too a spectrum, with more to less, distant to close to awareness, but it's probably not just a straight linear scale. Consciousness is inconsistency. I define consciousness as the ability to form memories. That does not mean those memories have to be in a line or in order. That's why shows like SpongeBob and The Simpsons relate here. Somewhat random things become linked. This is why nightmares can get weird or you can't always tell if it's a nightmare or a dream. Babies become conscious first; a person knocked on the head becomes conscious first. They begin to perceptualize. They begin to subconsciously recognize things, even have recall. In teaching, they have this thing called "number sense" which can start with "rote counting" which is where a meaning is attached to a number. But number sequence must be learned. This is a "One-to-One ratio", a name and meaning to a sequence/placement. The same thing takes place with all things. As one recognizes more and more, they get closer to Awareness.

Awareness is being able to put order to those memories and is an important state to form thoughtful ideas. I would say, "Before Awareness it was hard for things to make sense." While I could remember things clearly, it was as if I was not awake, like sleepwalking, before Awareness. I was not a person before Awareness and I didn't have an Identity, I couldn't identify things. Course people before Awareness are still People, they are conscious beings.