It's been a decades-long journey for Dr. Drew, and he's also a prime example of the "middle" level of conscious. Also note that Drew is highly intelligent and incredibly well-read, so we see that consciousness has nothing to do with intelligence.

It was clear back in the "Loveline" days that Drew was a product of his training. He talked just like any other doctor, and that was exactly why he was on the show. But you could also tell that he read a lot of research for himself, and this led him to say things from time to time that you would not hear anywhere else.

Mid-level consciousness is that which is between NPCs and the fully awake. Probably at most 15% of the population is capable of it, but a far smaller fraction of them have actually developed it to that level.

This is the big problem with mid-level consciousness: humans are incredible at being able to rationalize things to themselves. So people like Drew, Bill Maher, and even Michael Moore and Piers Morgan constantly get torn between the mainstream line and the evidence they see before them. Any of them might say something that you might have said yourself, but that's not something which is true about Joy Reid.

Over the years, Drew has said some shockingly true things out loud in the mainstream, after which his career got its dick kicked in. Remember when he said, "It looks like Hillary is a lot sicker than they're saying"? He was crucified and he backed off. That's the rational choice, in a sense.

So humans of the mid-level highly tend towards "going along to get along" in their self-interest. That generates the fundamental bias of, "Everything is real, just like they tell us in school and on TV and in books."

What's happening here is that Drew has taken the final step. Now, it's not that he has graduated to the next-higher level of consciousness--it doesn't work like that. He has, however, finally adopted the correct bias for the current time: "Everything is fake."