Awakenings
Stirring from dormancy
Awakenings is the plural of awakening—instances of waking up or becoming aware.
The word often carries spiritual or intellectual weight: a series of political awakenings shaped her worldview.
The Great Awakenings were religious revival movements in American history.
Oliver Sacks's memoir *Awakenings* describes patients emerging from decades of catatonia, later adapted into a film.
Profound spiritual awakening
- satoriSudden spiritual awakening
- illuminationProvision of light
- epiphanySudden profound insight
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
transcendence · nirvana · bodhi · kundalini · self-realization · consciousness · moksha · revelation
Source of creative impulse
- museThink deeply about
- breakthroughSudden important advance
- visionAbility to see
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
spark · revelation · artistic · originality · renaissance · flowering · genius · insight
Unwakeable unconsciousness
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- encephalitisInflammatory brain condition
- neurologicalOf the nervous system
emergence · responsiveness · stimulation · patient · dormant · revival · therapy · treatment
Morning light's arrival
- dawnDay's first glow
- alarmUrgent warning signal
- stirringArousing strong emotion
- grogginessState of sluggish disorientation
stretching · yawning · rousing · drowsiness · waking · sunlight · birdsong · coffee
Recoiling metal spiral
- renewalMaking current again
- blossomingBeginning to flower
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
- thawReturn to liquid
germination · buds · flowers · migration · hibernation · emergence · equinox · growth
Violent governmental overthrow
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- movementChange in position
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- reformImprove by correcting faults
mobilization · activism · resistance · solidarity · liberation · suffrage · independence · civil rights
enlightenment
Profound spiritual awakening
- satoriSudden spiritual awakening
- illuminationProvision of light
- epiphanySudden profound insight
rebirth · transcendence · nirvana · bodhi · kundalini · self-realization · consciousness · moksha · revelation · inner light
inspiration
Source of creative impulse
- museThink deeply about
- breakthroughSudden important advance
- visionAbility to see
imagination · spark · revelation · artistic · originality · renaissance · flowering · genius · insight · innovation
coma
Unwakeable unconsciousness
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- encephalitisInflammatory brain condition
neurological · emergence · responsiveness · stimulation · patient · dormant · revival · therapy · treatment · rehabilitation
sunrise
Morning light's arrival
grogginess · stretching · yawning · rousing · drowsiness · waking · sunlight · birdsong · coffee · cockcrow
spring
Recoiling metal spiral
- renewalMaking current again
- blossomingBeginning to flower
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
thaw · germination · buds · flowers · migration · hibernation · emergence · equinox · growth · verdant
revolution
Violent governmental overthrow
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- movementChange in position
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
reform · mobilization · activism · resistance · solidarity · liberation · suffrage · independence · civil rights · consciousness-raising
- Mental Health MediaA Beautiful Mind, Girl Interrupted, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Good Will Hunting, Shine
- ravesrave, EDC, Tomorrowland, Ultra, warehouse party
- Dutch MusicKensington, Vengaboys, Kane, Vandenberg, Tabitha
Awakeningssleeps
Rests unconsciously at night
slumbers · unconsciousness · comas · blackouts · stupors
Awakeningsendings
Concluding portions
conclusions · closings · finales · terminations · deaths
Awakeningsdelusions
Firmly held false beliefs
blindnesses · ignorance · blindness · benightedness · obliviousness
- rude awakeningStartling unpleasant realization
- Second Great AwakeningAntebellum Protestant revival movement
- sexual awakeningFirst awareness of desire
- spiritual awakeningProfound inner consciousness shift
- religious awakeningSpiritual transformation experience
- cultural awakeningSociety's renewed self-awareness