waking life

In her waking life she thought of Will often.

For Carolyn, there were few hurts, at least in her waking life.

In sleep, it seemed, she was free to do all the things that during her waking life she could only watch.

I should apply it to all my waking life.

Like most Londoners, I spend half my waking life on the tube.

In my daytime waking life, I have been the only son of a long-dead mother and father whose only marriage was to each other.

But to Amelia Garcia, the dream felt almost real, another painful moment from her waking life.

But he could not help wishing that his dream did not take over where his waking life left off.

She felt lonelier and more afraid as the hours passed, as if the dream had somehow settled into her waking life.

Later she knew she dreamed, for she saw faces she had never met in her waking life.