It doesn't 'feel like' something to be conscious, or more like to be consciousness, because consciousness is simply the feeling like, not the feeling like feeling like etc. But it does have some characteristics: it is ontologically central, that is it is not a kind of perception but our exclusive mode of being, so you couldn't say which come first, whether consciousness births being or being births consciousness; it is exclusively taken up however with what it isn't; it has a very strange relationship to time in which it appears to be momentary but also extended, and that duration is present and presence duration. You don't make yourself conscious and whatever does make you, or require you to be conscious (because another characteristic is that a question, a requirement, a calling is always latent in it) the mother of consciousness, must be nothing like what you experience as consciousness.