Gabriella Wilde

When you play a lead role, you're in pretty much every scene. It's incredibly tiring. You really have to disappear into the film because you have no time to do anything else. You are either awake and playing the character, or you are trying to catch up on sleep.

English Actress

Jerzy Kosinski

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

Polish Novelist

Plutarch

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Greek Philosopher

Erma Bombeck

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

American Journalist

Samuel Johnson

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

English Writer

George Santayana

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Spanish Philosopher

Kai Ryssdal

Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.

Hugh Prather

It is only in helping someone else to awake that I awake.

American Writer

Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

American Author

Douglas Horton

American Clergyman

Can imply worry or excitement, explaining why someone is not sleeping.

Emotional State

Often used in the phrase 'lie awake', suggesting being in bed but not asleep.

Idiomatic Usage

Figuratively, it may refer to slowly becoming aware of a situation.

Gradual Realization

Can express a sudden moment of alertness, especially after a surprise.

Sudden Awareness

Be careful with its past tense; 'awoke' and 'awakened' are both used.

Caution with Tenses

Often implies an external factor is responsible for the waking.

External Trigger

Used metaphorically to describe awareness as if from sleep to suggest inattention before.

Metaphorical Use

The process of becoming aware is often a change from ignorance to knowledge.

Emphasis on Change

 Pondering deep questions? Excitement about a big trip? Or is it stress about unfinished work, an upcoming test, or a dreaded family gathering? For many people, this stress is temporary, as its cause is quickly resolved. But what if the very thing keeping you awake was stress about losing sleep?

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 these neurons have a huge effect in turning off brainstem regions that normally keep you awake and alert, letting other parts, like the cortex and thalamus, slowly slip into their own default rhythms. The deeper we fall into sleep, the slower and more synchronized this rhythm becomes,

How spontaneous brain...

 which I did that was by putting an electrode array on their forehead and this enabled me to actually watch them moving from being completely awake to being completely unaware of all those noxious and terrifying stimuli that come in from the external world now watching

Asking where consciousnes...

 and even beverages labeled decaf. Caffeine helps us feel alert, focused, happy, and energetic, even if we haven't had enough sleep. But it can also raise our blood pressure, and make us feel anxious. It's the world most widely used drug. So how does it keep us awake?

How does caffeine keep...

 We dream to solve problems. Unconstrained by reality and the rules of conventional logic, in your dreams, your mind can create limitless scenarios to help you grasp problems and formulate solutions that you may not consider while awake.

Why do we dream? - Amy...

 But even more important, is to curb the curiosity to mine for the sordid details -- Where were you? Where did you do it? How often? Is she better than me in bed? -- questions that only inflict more pain, and keep you awake at night.

Rethinking infidelity...

 or you can have blackout shades and that will help best regulate that critical sleep hormone of melatonin. The next tip is walk it out. Don't stay in bed awake for long periods of time. And the general rule of thumb

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 What about sleep? In slow-wave deep sleep, our glial cells rinse cerebral spinal fluid throughout our brains, clearing away metabolic waste that accumulated in our synapses while we were awake.

What You Can Do to...

 astonishing everything is new and so your brain is awake and turned on so every passing second your brain is learning something new learning how the world works and so the muscle of your

Life Lessons From a...

 awake and amid the spring vegetation they starve because there are so few vancouver island marmots every survivor is important for the species

Awake

Not sleeping, alert and aware of surroundings.

Often appears as...

To stop sleeping or wake up.

Often appears as...

To make someone stop sleeping or wake up.

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To make one recognize or become aware of something.

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Usage tips

Emotional State

Idiomatic Usage

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