Experience like that is where I got my phenomenalism from. I didn't make it up. You can't see that objects are phony fictions until you've experienced without them. That's where I distinguish awareness and consciousness. It's sort of semantic and if you wanted to use the words differently, who'se to argue, but here's the way I use them.
Awareness is that raw experience of anything of any kind or no kind existing at all.
It is mysterious. We can't say anything about it other than it's there. Consciousness begins with perception. We are conscious of things. We can be aware without thinginess having anything to do with it.