However, without this selective perception, our experiences would appear chaotic. Attention permits the maintenance of familiar mental images over time. It results from curiosity, fear, guilt, desire, discipline and anxiety. It may lead us to awareness, insight and knowledge. In confronting a new experience, we pay attention.
Awareness is the condition of being alert or awake, and thus perceiving inward and outward reality.
It implies knowing or understanding something . Awareness is a more or less conscious condition of knowing the familiar meaning, value, or purpose given to our current synaptic memory patterns. Awareness combines attention with short-term memories of current events. In this text it is a transcendent state of being aware that may occur at nonconscious, unconscious and conscious levels. Awareness is concerned with our dominant self-concerns of the current moment, and is manifested as a sequence of transient, changing experiences.