Is Consciousness Empty?

With respect to objects, reality can be said to be empty. That it is not an object. It has no object qualities or features. So in reference to things, it is legitimate to say that the nature of reality is empty. But we cannot define reality in reference to non existent things. We must try to define reality on its own terms,. starting not with something that is unreal, but starting with that which is real. Now, from its own point of view, consciousness cannot be said to being empty. If we were to ask consciousness, what is your experience of yourself? Consciousness would never say, i am empty. Because the statement i am empty presumes the existence of