The word 'wakefulness' is correct and is commonly used in written English.
It refers to the state of being awake or the quality of being alert and attentive. Example: "After hours of studying, his wakefulness began to fade and he could feel himself becoming drowsy."
Dreams are experienced as reality; in dreams as in wakefulness, but unlike in waking fantasy and daydreams, we feel, simply, present in a world (Uslar 1964; Globus 1987: 89).
When the dreaming element of REM intrudes into wakefulness, which can happen with sleep-deprivation, the result is wakeful dreaming or hallucinations.
He points out that there are phenomenological differences between dreaming and wakefulness, noting that dream imagery lacks, for instance, the stability of waking perception.
Going back to Aristotle (On Sleeping and Waking), sleep had been defined in negative terms as the absence of wakefulness and perception.
He thundered, "I will not rest" until Christian pastor Saeed Abedini is released from Iranian prison, but was cagey about what his wakefulness entailed: "everything within our power, within our voice, from the White House, from the State Department, from our government" stops conspicuously short of military intervention.
An example of the latter would be sleep paralysis episodes that can occur between sleep and wakefulness.
As she reached for a zip, I was wrenched back to wakefulness.
And in those 20 seconds, as the furniture takes shape and we dissolve into wakefulness, we rearrange ourselves into the people we're meant to have become.
The theory he and his team wanted to test was that the ability to form new episodic memories deteriorates with accrued wakefulness, and that sleep thus restores the brain's capacity for efficient learning.They asked a group of 39 people to take part in two learning sessions, one at noon and one at 6pm.
Their cases raise questions about the purpose of sleep.Healthy people rotate between three states of vigilance: wakefulness, rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep and non-REM sleep.
