It typically occurs when you are feeling "tested" in waking life.

What a humiliating spectacle such a discussion would be in waking life!

The body I thought 1 once had, maybe that was a dream 1 confused with waking life.

Can you use your dreams as a practice ground for waking life?

Dreams, therefore, were no less real than waking life.

In waking life, I cross the bridge every day on my way to school.

In waking life a man would know the task impossible.

I knew that these were common animals, but in waking life my eyes had never seen the like before.

In waking life Henry was always aware of the difference in our dimensions.

Dreams are no more all of one sort than the experiences of waking life; less so in fact.