Hey there. I think you are probably
doing what I asked you to do but since you are using different terms (and the thought, “It’s obvious” is just a thought which makes the whole process suspect). I can’t be sure.
I ask, "How do I know that?"
The answer is, "It's obvious"
Then the question / direction comes:
What is that obviousness?
Notice that obviousness
Is that obviousness always here?
What makes it obvious?
This is thinking. Your mind served up some thinking and you likely went at it with more thinking, albeit probably along with more awareness and openness and actual curiosity than you have had available before.
The SPECIFIC question I asked you to answer (not with thinking, but with LOOKING: you can - and usually will - use words to describe what is “SEEN” – not the kind of seeing that is accomplished with the eyes - it is what awareness “sees” directly; what is directly known, the way you know you are you the way you always have known you are you since you first knew it – you were / are you and not someone else and that “you-ness” has never changed – you are the same you you have always been, despite being older, etc.) was “what is (ie, describe) the data / evidence to which you are referring that allows you to answer, ‘yes, I am aware’?”
It is not necessarily obvious, nor will the question, “what is that obviousness?” necessarily provide us with the answer.
You have to “Look”, and describe what you “see”.
Look with the knowing that knows whatever it is you are aware of.
Look with awareness itself.
This is what is known in (I believe) the Tibetan tradition as “turning the light of awareness around on itself”.
So please just answer the question I asked, in the form I asked it, and describe what you see.
Are you aware?
If the answer is “yes”, then please answer the following question:
What is it to which you are referring that allows you to answer, ‘yes, I am aware’?” 
