The question 'How does a thing become conscious?' could be put more advantageously thus: 'How does a thing become pre-conscious?'. And the answer would be: 'By coming into connexion with the verbal images that correspond to it'.
'The Ego and the Id', Sigmund Freud
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Some interesting Tibetan words:
(from Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist Teaching & Practice
rtog pa'i drwa ba - conceptual net, web of thoughts
gad mos stong khams g.yo - laughter which makes the universe tremble
khog gtam - one's innermost thoughts and feelings
glo bur shar ba'i kun rtog glog - the lightning-bolt of a momentarily occurring thought
dgongs bzhed - view point; thoughts, consideration, attention (h), intention, system, approach
'char sgo - thoughts, ideas, concepts/ appearances; perception-mediums; experience, vision, perception, thought, idea, conception