awakening
Sleep's sudden end
Awakening is the act of waking up or becoming aware.
The literal sense involves rousing from sleep: The baby's awakening came earlier than usual.
More often it describes a new awareness or realization: a spiritual awakening, a political awakening.
An awakening can be pleasant—discovering a passion—or harsh: a rude awakening is an unpleasant confrontation with reality.
Sudden spiritual awakening
- nirvanaRelease from cyclical existence
- mokshaRelease from rebirth cycle
- bodhiBuddhist spiritual awakening
- illuminationProvision of light
liberation · transcendence · zen · samadhi · dharma · enlightenment · kundalini · consciousness
Morning light's arrival
- daybreakMorning's first light
- morningDay's early hours
- sunupMorning's first light
- cockcrowDawn, announced by fowl
aurora · horizon · glow · rosy · dew · birdsong · stirring · fresh
Grasping what's true
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- mindfulnessAwareness of the present
alertness · understanding · insight · clarity · discernment · comprehension · attentiveness · cognizance
Return after dormancy
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
- revitalizationRestoring vigor or vitality
- rejuvenationRestoration of youthful vigor
- renaissancePeriod of renewed vitality
restoration · resurrection · regeneration · renewal · rekindling · reemergence · comeback · recovery
satori
Sudden spiritual awakening
- nirvanaRelease from cyclical existence
- mokshaRelease from rebirth cycle
- bodhiBuddhist spiritual awakening
illumination · liberation · transcendence · zen · samadhi · dharma · enlightenment · kundalini · consciousness · realization
sunrise
Morning light's arrival
cockcrow · aurora · horizon · glow · rosy · dew · birdsong · stirring · fresh · early
realization
Grasping what's true
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
mindfulness · alertness · understanding · insight · clarity · discernment · comprehension · attentiveness · cognizance · epiphany
resurgence
Return after dormancy
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
- revitalizationRestoring vigor or vitality
- rejuvenationRestoration of youthful vigor
renaissance · restoration · resurrection · regeneration · renewal · rekindling · reemergence · comeback · recovery · stirring
arousal
Stirring to heightened state
excitement · yearning · hunger · longing · kindling · warmth · fervor · urge · quickening
- origin storieslab accident, alien planet, mutation, tragic backstory, gamma radiation
- discoveryfind, finding, discovery, discover, finding out
- emotional changehealing, heartbreak, falling in love, grief, recovery
- Knowledge metaphorslight bulb, enlightenment, illumination, dawn, spark
- life changesmarriage, death, divorce, birth, graduation
- life experiencesgraduation, heartbreak, travel, parenthood, falling in love
awakeningsleep
Recurring unconscious repose
falling asleep · sleeping · dozing off · slumber · nodding off
awakeningignorance
Absence of knowledge
delusion · suppression · blindness · oblivion · deadening
awakeningdeath
Cessation of life
dying · destruction · extinguishing · ending · cessation
- 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