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Early comments[edit]

Bizarre. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:52, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Joan Tollifson describes 'awakening' thus:

Awakening isn't about acquiring some psychedelic vision or having some sustained oceanic sensation. It is simply about noticing that everything (mental movies, dreams, perceptions, thoughts, waking life, mirages, the I-illusion, apparent duality, time and space, chairs, tables, expansion, contraction, meditation retreats, traffic jams, everything) is without substance or continuity, and it all appears and disappears right here. Here is always here. It's always now. Even memories of the past, fantasies about the future, and thoughts of elsewhere can only appear here and now in the timeless, spaceless no-thing-ness of present awareness. This is all there is. Leo1

Do animals not listen while they are awake? Nic.Moon

After the AfD[edit]

Above mentioned Afd resulted in No consensus, but showed two things:

Most arguing for keeping the article, would also consider renaming it, e.g. to Wakefulness
A number of edtors would support moving the disambiguation page to Awake

Since the two objectives seem to be combatible with each other and wiht the Afd outcome, I would proceed with the moves. --Tikiwont 08:50, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hehehe[edit]

"...and productively think and work in the awake state; however, humans cannot fly while in the awake state."

I lol'd hard at the obviousness of this statement...just saying. Zell65 (talk) 11:14, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It does seem to suggest that we can fly while asleep.... --Hordaland (talk) 23:16, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

metabolism[edit]

Anabolism and Catabolism both occur independent of the sleep/wake cycle. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.248.168.161 (talk) 03:47, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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As a state of (self) awareness?[edit]

Does anyone else feel that the first paragraph in this section, which doesn't say a lot but contains the name Kabat-Zinn 4 times, smells a bit like a advert for Mr Kabat-Zinn? — Preceding unsigned comment added by BongoPedro (talk • contribs) 12:22, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it does! And sentences like "it may be helpful to begin by first splashing cold water on your face so that you are less likely to fall asleep" are more like a how-to instruction than "encyclopedic". Please feel free to shorten the sentences! Lova Falk talk 18:32, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wakefulness ≠ Mindfulness[edit]

In the physical state of wakefulness, one is not asleep. "Mindfulness" is something more or different; it needs at most a short mention in this article. --Hordaland (talk) 00:31, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

But is that enough reason to remove the template and the category? Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 05:23, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's also a measure (degrees of wakefulness); also this page seems to have false interlanguage links[edit]

Wakefulness does not only refer to the binary state of being awake but also the "degree" of wakefulness of a person.

This degree can vary per person, day / time and can de- or increase (including by artificial or purposeful means).

This needs to be added to the page's lead.

Also this page seems to be linked to de:Bewusstseinszustand and other language versions of that page which translates to "State of consciousness" and not "wakefulness". The "Bewusstseinszustand" article lists the state of being awake as one of many states. Hence it needs to be delinked, more appropriate other language pages be linked and potentially new pages need to be created.

--Fixuture (talk) 10:04, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]