waking world

collocation in English

meaningsofwakingandworld

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waking
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈweɪ.kɪŋ/us
/ˈweɪ.kɪŋ/
used to refer to a period of time or an experience during which you ...
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world
noun
uk
/wɜːld/us
/wɝːld/
the earth and all the people, places, and things ...
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(Definition ofwakingandworldfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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So we are adding two new scenes which take place in thewakingworld.
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The experience we have of being present and embodied in thewakingworldis practically identical.
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Surprisingly, in their dreams children often encountered animals that were seldom or never encountered in thewakingworld.
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Thus, it is the same phenomenal subject, me, both in the dream world and in thewakingworld.
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By contrast, they postulate that all emotions are represented in dreams to the same extent that they are represented in thewakingworld(or in autobiographical memory thereof).
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They start to hear the voice in thewakingworldtoo.
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Lyta was returned to thewakingworld, her experiences having changed her.
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The students feel as if thewakingworldand the dreaming world are beginning to interweave.
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He does deliberately change the style of his clothing to be less conspicuous when he visits thewakingworld.
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This girl, who is now approximately twelve years of age, is now making appearances in thewakingworld.
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Its geographical reality is dependent on thewakingworld, but its contents can be and are altered by the works of non-sleeping people.
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This begins to become more prevalent when he starts seeing her in thewakingworld, and does not understand what is happening to him.
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It is placed near the bed every night, so that the soul, which wanders during sleep, can return to thewakingworld.
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We aim to achieve the intensity of a sacrificial rite to tear away thewakingworldrevealing alternate realities filled with characters that are transformers expressing unimaginable possibilities.
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In the movie, characters can distinguish a dream by using totems, unique items whose properties and behavior are different in a dream than in thewakingworld.
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After pulling him into thewakingworld, they are able to sever his gloved-hand and slice his throat before setting fire to their school building, containing his remains.
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Often, stories of this type have as a major theme the nature of reality itself, questioning if the dream-world can have the same reality as thewakingworld.
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