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Dictionary » A » Awake AwakeAwake 1. To rouse from sleep.; to wake; to awaken. Where mornings earliest ray . . . Awake her. (Tennyson) And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, lord, save us; we perish. (Matt. Viii. 25) 2. To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity, or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. (Goldsmith) It way awake my bounty further. (Shak) No sunny gleam awakes the trees. (Keble) Origin: Awoke, Awaked; Awaked; (Obs) Awaken, Awoken; . Awaking. The form Awoke is sometimes used as a] [AS. Awaecnan, v. I. (imp. Awc), and awacian, v. I. (imp. Awacode). See Awaken, wake. Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action. Before whom awake i stood. (Milton) She still beheld, now wide awake, the vision of her sleep. (Keats) He was awake to the danger. (Froude) Origin: From awaken, old p. P. Of awake. ![]()
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Results from our forumSolve medical mystery ~ yawn, stretch, tremors... awoken by violent muscle tremors (enough to cause extreme discomfort in my extremeties). I was very slightly aware of this, although not totally awake and I figure the shaking woke me up. In addition, is an uncontrollable impulse to yawn. Seems sort of like an average normal thing, yawning or ...
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Fixing my own sleeping problemThis reminds me of a study I read about sleep where a researcher kept a cat awake for days and days and it finally went insane. The same thing will happen to us if we're kept awake for too long, >72 hrs. This is part of the reason meth-heads are soo crazy. ...
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Fixing my own sleeping problem... pretty weird. I become more sensitive to light. My muscles seem weaker and more twitchy (possibly because of the caffeine associated with staying awake that long). I'm more easily confused or surprised. The things happening around me have a slight surrealness, like I'm almost not really there. ...
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Controlling dreams... of a dream, and if I just keep thinking about that dream, I fall back to sleep and continue where I was. The trick is, however, that when briefly awake I can again change something in that dream - like all the chicks suddenly wear a lot less clothes or something else fun. There are a few more ...
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Ghost and Possession... causing their body difficult to move and since their subconcious mind (it usually happen just before they were fall asleep or just after they awake) reasons this as a demon's work thus making their eyes seeing something that do not exist. However, why no men ever tell me they have encounter ...
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