Is the unexamined life truly worth living?

Is the unexamined life truly worth living? What did Socrates mean by this deep and complex statement? What I believe he was saying was that if you don’t look at your life in perspective and look around you and question the world you live in you are not truly living and I agree. If you are just living your life by instinct and just doing things because of basic impulses are you really living? Are you fully conscious in this state of being? I feel like if you don’t stop or slow down while you are living your life to observe and question and examine the world around you and your own being you are living a semiconscious half asleep state. This state is very close to the state of conscious that I imagine animals are in. they realize they are alive and that they need basic things like food and water and shelter but don’t ever wonder why do I need water to not die. I think the reason Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living is because as humans and as homo sapiens we are capable of more than animals so we need to be expected to live our lives at a higher level of consciousness. It’s not ok for us to just mentally coast by through our lives and if we do we are not living life to the fullest and not even attempting to do it. Personally, I would not want to live an unexamined life.