It’s as if it is completely new….even if it’s something one has (supposedly) experienced a thousand times before. The difference is they have experienced it fully,  immediately, that is consciously, instead of abstractly, and as a result they have experienced it only semi-consciously for the last 10 or 30 years. Full consciousness is immediate, new and now, and enables one to experience whatever one actually has their attention on …..fully, as it is this moment, and that includes one’s experience of their own consciousness, their own self awareness as well. 

Conscious awareness is the actual beginning, and later in life the re-discovery and experience of true source….conscious beingness.