What percentage of your day do you think you spend fully conscious of what you are doing?

I don't sleep much and I actively try to pay attention to everything I do. After all, this is my life we're talking about; I don't want to miss any of it.
There are times, fairly frequently, when I will absorb myself in a particular task. I'll be focused on that one thing and won't spare the attention to "watch" myself doing it. I'm not sure if you'd want to count that as "fully conscious" or not. To me, fully conscious would require some measure of self-awareness.

How could you ever quantify this? I like to think I am always very 'in the moment' & fully conscious of what is happening, but they say a little daydreaming & vegging out is good.

This also presumes that a person can't have two thought processes running at once. even when I am sitting and staring at a wall or daydreaming, I am conscious of myself and am deliberately daydreaming. when I am zoned, I am zoned.. there is nothing.. that doesn't occupy much of my day. other than that the only time I am not thinking or considering beforehand is during some conversations. I will speak before considering my statements, but the statements are usually correct for the context and I sometimes surprise myself by making some statement which is the result of several thought processes in a concise and clear (and exactly what I meant, or what the thought processes were driving at that I was not yet consciously aware of).

About 16%. I have a four hour period when I am good to do anything. It lasts from about Noon to 4:00pm. Unfortunately for any employer one of those hours is taken up by lunch. I am completely useless for the rest of the day.

Meditative practice teaches one to become more conscious and aware throughout the day. Living in the moment and being "with it" are related concepts. ...I think I spend most of my time inside my head (for better or worse).

This is a wild guess.

Quite a fair amount. We sleep from 2am - 8am or so. Then I drive to work, which I always pay attention to. Work is programming which takes a lot of focus. Then darts or target shooting or another focus-intensive task, and then home.

I need to be more careful of this while driving.

I zone out while driving all the time. It might explain why my poor car looks like a war refugee.

The frustrating part is being fully conscious of the fact that you're fudging something up.

my job requires that i be "fully conscious" 99% of the time that i am there so that is a 12 hr. period then i have been trying to be more fully conscious of all my actions during waking hrs so i would say 70-80% of the waking time. i still do a fair amount of day dreaming or zoning out when i drive(which is not a good thing) or when at home sometimes.

I'd have to say 0%. I think it would be hubris for me to say I'm ever *fully* conscious. I do try to be aware though. Mostly conscious I do a lot better than 0% on.

You folks really believe that you're fully conscious often? What do you think that means?

It varies a lot, but is always small. What dpolicar & romkey said.

I like to think that I am pretty conscience of what I am doing for most of my day, although there are many times during the day that I find myself in my own little world, completely oblivious to all that is going on around me.

I daydream a lot. I stare off into space while I'm thinking and everyone wonders why I'm staring at them. I'm not staring at them, I'm just....staring, thinking. So I'll zone out in class, or while I'm pretending to be interested in what someone is telling me. This usually isn't a good thing.

Every once in a while I notice I'm doing something and I wasn't aware I was doing it. Sometimes I'm talking and try to fade back and and figure out what I'm talking about. The other night I was driving and had to figure out if I was in the process of breaking or accelerating. Spookey. So, those times are maybe 5% of my time, usually the rest of the time I'm hyper-aware of what my muscles and my spirit are doing. I call that conscious. maybe it's not fully conscious? maybe I'm totally missing what romkey and dpolicar are refering to, or maybe I'm just in that state a lot.

*WAY* less than 10%, so I picked 0%. I've been fully conscious of what I'm doing a few times in my life; it's hard to mistake that for anything else and it rarely happens, more's the pity.
topper - maybe. The best way I can put it is that if I define "fully conscious" as "the most aware I've ever been of myself and of environment and what's happening in it," then I've been fully conscious a few times in my life and am not fully conscious most of the time. Like you and everyone else, I also have fugue/daydreaming/autopilot episods, but that's not what I'm talking about here.