The phrase "actually conscious" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the state of being aware or awake, often in contrast to a previous assumption or belief.
Example: "Despite the rumors, he was actually conscious during the entire procedure."
Alternatives: "truly aware" or "genuinely awake".
You were actually conscious of that, then?
"Now, naturally, in hindsight she wasn't vegetative; she was actually conscious.
For all their experience with this population, clinicians could not seem to agree on whether any given patient was actually conscious.
According to the findings, a commonly used device designed to prevent anesthesia awareness the rare event when a patient is actually conscious during surgery was largely ineffective.
There have, for instance, been cases of patients being given anesthesia who appear to be asleep but are actually conscious of their pain and paralysis.
He would come out and do his monologue, which was a new thing in those days, and you would feel that this was a guy who was actually conscious that there were people out there.
What if one were to suggest that nature actually WAS conscious and very much aware of her rising temperatures.
According to several studies, about 40 percent of patients who have been declared vegetative are actually minimally conscious.
Three brain injury patients diagnosed as being in a vegetative state meaning they do not respond to their environment may actually be conscious.
But when nearly half of those who could participate are misdiagnosed as vegetative when they are actually minimally conscious, this vulnerable group is further marginalized.
[Here, Liao noted that he was planning a conference with ethicists and scientists about "borderline consciousness" — using fMRI to determine if patients in a "persistent vegetative state," or PVS, actually are conscious.
