Consciousness as fully embodied and enacted presence being the most vivid form of waking consciousness seems to be the moment that best expresses its essence and guides its pursuit, but that understanding may be only an artifact of reflection or of practises which seem the most like awakening, an apotheosis of phenomenality. Every form of consciousness that can be reported or otherwise objectified, which is ultimately the same as enacted, depends on a pre-reflective substratum. You might thing of this as something infinitely thin, like the backing of a mirror, but more likely it resembles the underside of an iceberg only richer in variegated content. You can't say it is fabricated or inferred as a correlate of functioning because it bears on every lived moment but is imperceptible because of the operative limits that define your current self-knowledge. Even to refer it to mind is a limiting assumption, as if that were only filter for appearance imposed on an indescribable and noumenal openness.