well I am very empathic in my waking hours. I actually feel what others are feeling when their emotions are really strong (anger, frustration, sadness, were the first emotions I noticed, but now I can feel when people like/ love someone, or are very happy). I have had a couple of moments when I was just starting to wake up or fall back to sleep and I could hear someone thoughts. The most recent experience was a couple of months ago. I was half awake/asleep and my boy friend was trying to wake me up and I distinctly heard him say, "hey, I need to talk to you about something." and I mumbled, "uh-huh?" then I woke up and realized he hadn't said anything. Later that night we talked about making our relationship official.

That is what I meant by increased awareness. ^_^