For me, perhaps each thing is somewhere along the scale from not-automatic to automatic.

In Effectiveness Training based on Thomas Gordon's material, we were taught that one tends to progress through these levels (though one also jumps around at times):

First, incompetent and unaware of it; then still incompetent, but aware of it; then competent, and aware of it; and finally, competent and unaware of it ... doing things right without even noticing that that's what you're doing.