The Persistence of Memory employs "the exactitude of realist painting techniques" to depict imagery more likely to be found in dreams than in waking consciousness.

The hotel manager is astonished next morning when Grace brings his father, who suffers a severe case of Alzheimer's disease, into waking consciousness.

There was nothing to do but return to waking consciousness and try to determine what it all meant.

The sight of this monster rather relieved than heightened my terrors -- for I now made sure that I dreamed, and endeavored to arouse myself to waking consciousness.

We accept our experience of waking consciousness as being normal and, for the most part, only professional philosophers spend much time thinking about its significance.

A starting point for any analysis of this nature must be to establish clearly how dreaming differs from waking consciousness.

Here we can see the two-way exchange between waking consciousness and dream-consciousness.

It took some effort on my part to move the body and by that come back to waking consciousness again.

Jung suggested that dreams may compensate for one-sided attitudes held in waking consciousness.

On this model OBEs represent the intrusion of Stage 1 sleep processes into waking consciousness.