Virginia Woolf is recognized as one of the great innovators of Modern Fiction. Her experiments of her point of view have influenced many writers that followed her. But one particularly interesting technique is her use of moments of being… to wonder why some moments are so powerful and memorable, even if the events themselves are unimportant, that they can be vividly recalled while other events are easily forgotten.
She concludes that there are two kinds of experiences, moments of being and moments of nonbeing the writer explains, even if explicates what she means by moment of being she provides examples of these moments and contrasts them with moments of what she calls non-being.
 Moments of non-being appear to be moments that the individual is not consciously aware of even as she experiences them. She notes that people perform routine tasks such as walking and shopping without thing about them. This part of the life is “not lived consciously”,
but instead is embedded in “a kind of nondescript cotton wool”. It is not the nature of the actions that separates moment of being from moments on non-being.
One activity is not intrinsically more mundane or more extraordinary than the other.
Instead, it is the intensity of feeling, one’s consciousness of the experience, that separates the two moments.A walk in the country can easily be hidden behind the cotton wool for one person,
 but for Virginia Woolf the experience is very vivid.
Virginia Woolf asserts that these moments of being, there flashes of awareness, reveal a pattern hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life, and that we, “I mean all human being are connected with this; that the whole world is a world of act; that we are parts of the whole world of art”.
Virginia Woolf says “we are the words; we are the music; we are the think itself”.
Thus for Woolf a moment of being is a moment.When an individual is fully conscious of his experience, a moment when is not only aware of itself but catches a glimpse of his connection to a large pattern hidden behind the opaque surface of daily life. Unlike moments of non-being,
when the individual lives and acts without awareness, performing acts as he asleep, the moment of being opens up a hidden reality.