Being awake is a metabolic state which is marked by catabolic processes and which is characterized by consciousness, the opposite of sleep, an anabolic process. Communication, ambulation and ingestion are conducted while awake. Animals can run, walk and eat while awake; humans can also talk, listen, write, read and productively think and work in the awake state. Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and ones environment. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Communication is the process of exchanging information usually via a common system of symbols. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria  Acoelomorpha  Orthonectida  Rhombozoa  Myxozoa  Superphylum Deuterostomia     Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... The word run can mean several things: Run has many dictionary definitions such as moving swiftly by foot. See Running, and Run in Wiktionary. ... Walking is the main form of animal locomotion on land, distinguished from running and crawling. ... A meal is an instance of eating, specifically one that takes place at a specific time and includes specific, prepared foodstuffs. ... Human beings are defined variously in biological, spiritual, and cultural terms, or in combinations thereof. ... The title of this article is incorrect because of technical limitations. ... Hearing is one, the auditory, of the traditional five senses, and refers to the ability to detect sound. ... Writing is the process of inscribing characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other larger language constructs. ... Reading is an enjoyable pastime for many people. ... Thought or thinking is a mental process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires. ... In physics, work is defined as the integral of dot product of force times infinitestimal translation: In project management, work is the effort applied to produce a deliverable or accomplish a task. ...

Other meanings

To be "awakened" can refer to being taken out of a state of believing something which one subsequently believes to be false. Belief is assent to a proposition. ... Logic (from ancient Greek λόγος (logos), meaning reason) is the study of arguments. ...

Example: I used to be racist, but I was awakened when I saw a documentary about Nelson Mandela.

Being "awakened" is also used as a metaphor for a number of consciousness raising experiences, including religious conversion. A Black person drinks out of a water foutain designated for black people in 1939 at a streetcar terminal. ... President Nelson Mandela, 1995-1999 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, OM OC, (born 18 July 1918) was the first democratically-elected President of South Africa. ... In language, a metaphor is a rhetorical trope where a comparison is made between two seemingly unrelated subjects. ... Consciousness-raising is process, as by group therapy, of achieving greater awareness of ones needs in order to fulfill ones potential as a person ... Religious conversion is the adoption of new religious beliefs that differ from the converts previous beliefs; in some cultures (e. ...

Awake can also be used sarcastically in conversation. "Are you awake at all?", which would be used when someone is only half listening to a conversation and appears to be asleep. Sarcasm is sneering, jesting, or mocking a person, situation or thing. ... For the movie from Francis Ford Coppola, see The Conversation. ... Sleeping girl Sleep is the fundamental anabolic process common to all life forms, plant and animal. ...