Awareness is to be conscious of, acquainted with, informed of/about, apprised of or cognizant of. When the Most High says that you are asleep, it means metaphorically that you are not conscious of etc...
To become conscious you have to not only obtain knowledge but understand and have the ability to interpret it or articulate it. We were never made to just to repeat words but to expand upon them, think!
We were never meant to just accept as they say for "face value". Our minds were made to see it in 3 dimensions so when we see this scripture below for example we interpret it in different ways, we expand the mind!!!
“God grabbed me. God’s Spirit took me up and set me down in the middle of an open plain strewn with bones. He led me around and among them—a lot of bones! There were bones all over the plain—dry bones, bleached by the sun. He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I said, “Master God, only you know that.” He said to me, “Prophesy over these bones: ‘Dry bones, listen to the Message of God!’””
Ezekiel 37:1-4 MSG
A translation:"awaken a people that are asleep (dry)!"