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adj. Marked by full consciousness, awareness, and alertness: worked every moment of my waking hours.

adj. Occurring during wakefulness.

v. Present participle of wake.

n. The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.

n. A watch; a watching.

Being awake; not sleeping.

Rousing from sleep; exciting into motion or action.

Passed in the waking state; experienced while awake: as, waking hours.

n. The act of passing from sleep to wakefulness, or of causing another so to pass.

n. The state or period of being awake.

n. Watch.

n. A vigil; especially, the act of holding a wake, or of watching the dead.

adj. marked by full consciousness or alertness

n. the state of remaining awake

"Dr. Kevin Nelson, he is a neurologist from Louisville believes a near death experience is what he calls a waking dream."

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