I think you raise a good point here in that "awakening" is not a final outcome event and that it is more of a process. We have moments of conscious awareness but then we often go back to a state of being unconscious.
i kind of think of the unconscious state as a state of "reaction" (IE. we react to the environment or our thoughts). On the other hand, the conscious state is one of intending, in that we are aware within the moment and we intend our next course of action/thought. But like you state in your article, we rarely stay within the awakened state indefinitely. rather, we pop in and out of the awakened state. Nice post