obliviously

adverb

ob·​liv·​i·​ous·​ly

: without remembrance or awareness : in an oblivious manner

Consciousness … becomes a captivity—a hellish churning in which the insomniac is as alone as Satan, twisting and turning and boring a conical hole in the darkness, while on all sides the wide world blessedly, obliviously snores.

—John Updike, The Afterlife, 1994

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