Thirty seconds passed while he roused himself quietly to normal consciousness.

Meditation is a very altered state relative to normal consciousness.

Only, if you are still in possession of your normal consciousness, I should like to see you once again before we part.

Call 911 (or your local emergency number) if normal consciousness does not return quickly.

"Oh, excuse me," he said in apparently normal consciousness again.

With an effort, he forced himself to stand upright, and to return to the world of normal consciousness.

Several lifetimes of normal human consciousness passed this way.

At length, I awoke to something like my normal consciousness.

A week or so later, I floated back into normal consciousness again.

In this form, his normal human consciousness is submerged, and he attacks like an animal.