Awareness of oneself as the subject of an event located in personal subjective time. In Endel Tulving's account it characterizes episodic memory, as distinct from knowing facts without reliving their acquisition. An operational test of event information is not automatically a test of this phenomenology.[ref]
Memory and consciousness by Endel Tulving. 1985, definition of autonoetic awareness and memory-system distinctions
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