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As the man was passing out, the agent shook him awake, then repeated the action twice.
BBC: Guantanamo Bay detainees in 2002
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You lean one way until shooting pains stir you awake, then lean the other way till you nod off again.
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"You will need somebody who is wide awake for this, " she said, then hung up the phone.
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The city has a pulse, a rhythm that makes it feel alive, awake somehow if not sentient, then at least organic.
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And then, like a dream that turns terrifying just before it shoves you gratefully awake, that first tower fell.
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Noticing the circadian pattern of Charles B's depression, Dr Wehr asked him to get through a night without sleeping, and then to increase his nightly sleep only gradually, so that for almost a week he was awake during those crucial early-morning hours.
ECONOMIST: People, like all living things, are four dimensional