The phrase "conscious idea" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a thought or concept that someone is aware of and actively thinking about. Example: "The author's conscious idea was to create a world where technology controlled every aspect of human life."
Remember that when you say you have "no idea", you mean you have no conscious idea.
"To be frank, we did not have a very conscious idea to conserve biodiversity right from the beginning.
Yet, if she was shown words too quickly to decipher in this way, she could nonetheless correctly sort them into salient categories, such as "living" or "non-living," even though she had no conscious idea of their meaning.
blah blah blah' I have no conscious idea what they are talking about…but apparently the have audio and they accuse me of hanging up on an Allstate customer who just happens to have called an anonymous Audatex Vice-President.
I was never working from a conscious idea of facing destiny.
It might spread the socially conscious idea of practicing safe sex, where it's actually kind of sexy to care about your immune system enough to wear a condom.
For them the elements of the process were conceived not as conscious ideas but as fractional or incipient motor responses, each producing its proprioceptive stimulus.
Criticism, however, has been leveled against the explanation of myths in terms of only one theme and in terms of the "repression" of conscious ideas.
It often happens that the real point of doing something only emerges clearly after a lot of initial work has been completed, the conscious ideas underpinning it turning out to be the tip of a larger iceberg.
J. Ed Goodman a friend of Mr. Guillot's and the executive director and founder of the Mindshare Institute and Foundation in Fort Collins, Colo., a think tank that supports socially conscious ideas, remembered Mr. Guillot's desire to create a world anthem.
It's when stream of conscious ideas gush forth like an uncorked champagne bottle.
