There is a seedbed of inchoate impulses, urges desires and hopes from which we instantly recognise those that are our own and those, not always the same, that ought to be our own, from which imagination draws for its fantasies, projections and deliberations and out of which again patterns for realised actions come. What is imagined in this way are always possible actions, action being the terminus of the entire process. The sense of freedom, or of free-will, comes from the experienced gap, the hiatus between merely imagined and realised acts, it is matter of feeling rather than deduction. This gap is fundamental to the kind of consciousness that you have. A kind of consciousness in which there is no such gap at all, in which all is realisation, is what must be prior to your consciousness and making it possible for you to recognise your own existence.