waking

Marked by full consciousness, awareness, and alertness.

Being awake; not sleeping.

Rousing from sleep; exciting into motion or action.

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

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

The state or period of being awake.

Watch.

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

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

A watch; a watching.