waking life
Hours spent alert
Waking life is the state of ordinary conscious existence, as distinguished from dreams, sleep, or altered states.
The phrase typically appears in philosophical or reflective contexts: In my waking life, I never think about her, but she haunts my dreams.
It emphasizes that what happens while awake constitutes "real" experience.
- dreamlifeOne's sleeping visions collectively
- realityWhat actually exists
- real worldTangible everyday existence
- dreamSleeping mind's narrative
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
consciousness · stream of consciousness · daytime · rotoscope · lucidity · phenomenology · perception · temporality · existence · sleep cycles · alertness · symbolic dreams · daily grind · quotidian · introspection · vigilance · prophetic dreams · somnambulism
- inner explorationself-discovery, introspection, self-reflection, self-awareness, inner journey
- nownow, present, moment, instant, today
waking lifesleep
Recurring unconscious repose
unconsciousness · slumber · deep sleep · coma · REM sleep
waking lifedreams
Involuntary sleep visions
dreamworld · dream state · dreaming · the unconscious · dreamscape
waking lifedeath
Cessation of life
nonexistence · oblivion · eternal rest · eternal sleep · the beyond
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