A mother wakes up in the middle of the night when she hears her 2-year-old daughter crying in the adjacent bedroom. In the morning, she does not have any memory of having woken up the previous night, suggesting that she was in:
A states of minimal consciousness is a state where a person is showing minimal but inconsistent awareness can engage in communications or even give certain responses to requests when they ask to. If this lady could hear her daughter at night but happens to have no memories of this in the morning it shows she was in this state.
