Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.
Jeanette WintersonEvery time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are!
Tennessee WilliamsTags: humor lucky waking-up dead-people rise
Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.
John SteinbeckThe hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.
Tove JanssonTags: life feelings tiredness waking-up
Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what’s called at home.
Christopher IsherwoodTags: life present sleep home waking-up
The dream was floating off satisfactorily on an inner sea.
Christopher HarmanBefore she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers through hers. Gretel looked up at him, so startled she might as well have been shot.
'I just wanted to wake you up', he said.
Which is exactly what he did. One look at him and her heart was racing. One look, and whatever had been before was all over.
Tags: first-love waking-up experiences
If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.
Ian McEwanTags: life death dreaming heaven waking-up
Waking up to a smell is a lot more satisfying than waking up to a noise. Instead of barging in uninvited and yanking you out into reality, smells enter your dreams with a silent knock and a polite "Excuse me?
Adi AlsaidThere is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.
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