can someone define how these two words are used? do they talk about the same thing?   i feel awareness = being aware of whatever... consciousness is the field/"object" thru which I become aware?     in other words, awareness is the output / result of consciousness being present.     Am I understanding this correct? or are these words used in different meaning depending on context?








googled it just now actually and found this:

“Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep. Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something. Consciousness is partial and changeful, awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent. And it is the common matrix of every experience.”  
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj According to world expert on lucid dreaming, Stephen LaBerge, consciousness is awareness plus mind and the structure of the individual brain. “That’s a critical understanding,” he says, “Consciousness does have to do with the brain, but it’s not awareness. Awareness is the word for what it is prior to the one thing we are sure of.” ... Consciousness requires and object. Awareness does not.       Can someone provide example/metaphor to explain what the difference between the two is? it seems based on what i have googled above that awareness is the absolute primal thing - that's the highest of the levels which nothing is prior to. so as a result, i guess that's the purest form of what each of us is? awareness. pure awareness. but it's different than consciousness somehow?  I understood this all as pure awareness as the highest level and then mind which is the level below but now there is apparently a sub-division of awareness then consciousness then mind?      am i just making this more difficult than it's supposed to be ? lol do these levels really matter? i guess they do in order to see what I am deep down intellectually ..