Consciousness, awareness needs no object other than it's own state, being aware of awareness. Consciousness and awareness are their own "objects", needing none of the senses we confuse with consciousness. I am aware that I exist in a state of awareness, needing no "thought", nothing outside of the state of pure awareness. We understandably tend to limit our experience to that with which we are familiar, sensory perception of "outside" stimula. The pure state of awareness is rarely experienced while we inhabit these thinking, sensory machines.