The phrase "normal consciousness" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: Most people experience a state of normal consciousness throughout their daily lives, where thoughts and actions are logical and coherent.
Normal consciousness is swamped by previously repressed psychic energies.
Even when we are consciousness, we sometimes experience states where our normal consciousness is radically altered.
Flying blissfully over vast, rich landscapes I began to accept aspects that in normal consciousness are hard to fathom.
This fits with the behavioural profile of these patients; that is to say, vegetative patients showed no evidence of normal consciousness while minimally conscious patients do at least show some evidence of conscious processing.
"As a songwriter, I think what you are aiming for is slightly to discomfort the audience, to get just below the normal consciousness at the things that are not quite talked about.
Between pathologically impaired consciousness and normal consciousness exists a scarcely researched transition zone, referred to as emergence from minimally conscious state, in which patients regain the capacity for functional communication, object use, or both.
This can be scary enough, but in a minority of cases, such as those described above, this curious mix of normal wakeful consciousness and dream consciousness can result in bizarre and often terrifying hallucinations.
"Our normal waking consciousness... is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different".
What we call normal waking consciousness is a limited state.
Mental contents hidden from view (or suppressed) during normal waking consciousness come to the fore: emotions, memories, wishes and fears.
Psychedelics should surprise us with mind-bending ideas to grapple with, but never with unexpected longevity or by impairing our ability to navigate the parts of life that require normal waking consciousness.
