While you are awake, you are perceiving reality through your senses and your interface with the external world is filtered through the past accumulated layers of your experiences. I call this state “awareness” based on sensations, emotions, relations, memories, past experiences. Making decisions is part of this aspect of Consciousness; taking decisions, organizing your life, planning events and every little act of life is rooted in this Conscious awareness.
There is also another layer of what I refer to as Consciousness; the ever-present space and soul of everything; this is what some call Eternity, Transcendence, void, God, the spirit that permeates all things, what “holds” the big picture. An autonomous consciousness independent of humans experiencing it.