I am self aware but you are going to have to take my word for it...

I am self aware but you are going to have to take my word for it as there is no easy way to prove it to anyone other than myself. Just as I cannot make any assumptions about your state of being.

By the way, the self is the observer, not the thing being observed. That which you cannot see is the self. That is the only way you can be aware of the self, by observation. Once you know you are observing, you are intrinsically aware of the self.