Awakening

I disagree with 'you won't need to ask'.

Problem is, you cannot quantify it. It comes in degrees, that blooms into different stages of how you respond to or experience your inner life. When that begins, it feels like the entire world is changing with you because it's inside you, the changes. It IS you.
So, things stop making sense like they use to. Doesn't mean you are awakened, it means that a process has begun that will change you, yet there is no map to define your future anymore. YOUR future..
Meaning; how you will respond to life experiences. The choices you once found fundamental, are not unconsciously guiding you anymore. Suddenly you become aware that you've always had infinite choices and decisions, not just those few, limited fundamental ones you lived your past with.

As you grow more adept, you can follow the choices and decisions into your future, see where they will lead you. How? By knowing the way people fundamentally live and make their choices, their decisions about life. You can easily see them, because they are not residing in the depths of your subconscious anymore. They breath at the conscious level of thought.

This changing brings the subconscious repositories closer to the surface of your everyday conscious living.

That results in something amazing when you find yourself living in the subconscious and eventually supra- conscious realms; ie, dreams and meditation. When you become able to make these changes in those realms, your SOUL changes.