Being aware, and being aware that you are aware are very similar things that are subtly different.
I was aware that alcohol affects your next day, even a little. That's because people always say that alcohol is bad for you (surprise surprise). I heard this, so you could say that I was aware. I generally thought about this as "a hangover is bad for you." and was somewhat dismissive of the "even a single drink has a bad effect" mantra.
I did some experimenting, and slowly realized that even a single drink can indeed have an impact on the next day. It's not a hangover, but an impact that I could feel nonetheless. I needed to do some light stats and a lot more journaling to build this awareness. I am now aware that I am aware.
> an impact that I could feel nonetheless. I needed to do some light stats and a lot more journaling to build this awareness.
If you could feel it why beed the stats?
I don't think I was clear.
There is a difference between knowing something, and believing it to be true.
I know that sometimes I feel good when I wake up. I know people say that drinking makes you feel not good when you wake up, sometimes.
It takes a bit of observation and some statistical sampling to connect those two together. Now I know it, and also believe it to be true.
Perhaps "aware" vs "aware that I am aware" was a bad way of phrasing it.
It's like any good cryptographic challenge - easier to validate the answer than to come up with it from scratch