How Do We Know If We Are Awake Or Not?

Asking that question is a good start.
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When we are in repeat mode, we are living in the mind’s dogma, and function on a mechanical level, following a dream; certain people are predisposed to certain dreams. Whatever we see going on in the world we’re supposed to see, but there is so much more. 

When, without question, we accept all that we see as reality, we are living others’ dreams but don’t realise it. We think of swiping our card or phone as being normal, never noticing that we’ve followed orders. We bow to a shrine, never noticing that we have been subjugated.

We sleep walk.

To wake up, we must dare to ask the question, “Am I awake or not?” That question creates a gap – an emptiness before an answer, allowing consciousness to just be present. That is the moment of pure consciousness. That is wakefulness. There is nothing mechanical about this moment. It is a state of not knowing anything, but of knowingness itself.

Waking up is not about being made aware of some thing; that is the little deception. 
Waking up is purely being aware. 

Once this is valued, we are never deceived again.