Your perception of the world is filtered through many softening layers of habit and fabulation, even when reinforcing the story of being at odds with the way of things. If these layers are peeled away the result is a particularly dramatic intensification, terrifying and invigorating. However rare it might be, this naked perception belongs only to waking consciousness - it doesn't occur first in the unconscious and the get toned down. The filtering metaphor is inapt. There is an aspect of consciousness that is not passive, that can only be accessed through the waking state.