waking

adj

1. Occurring during wakefulness.

   “A waking nightmare”

   “The city had as yet hardly drawn its first waking breath.”

   “Counting occupied my every waking thought.”

   “It is this gift of life that we are grateful to receive each waking moment, and so we give thanks, “for our lives, which are committed to Your power.””

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of wake

noun

1. The act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake.

   “[…] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.”