wakefulness

If there’s no other private refuge at home, “establish a distinct microenvironment for wakefulness and sleep,” Strauss said.

Together, these pathways form a "default ascending arousal network" that sustains wakefulness in the resting, conscious human brain.

In his moments of dim-eyed wakefulness he had no idea how much time had passed since he was last awake—whether an hour, a day, or a week.

The relative strength of alpha-band oscillations in the brain increased while participants played with and walked the dog, reflecting a state of relaxed wakefulness.

Cardiac activity has been indeed proposed to directly contribute to the way we perceive the world, but such evidence was so far obtained in wakefulness.