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Conscious vs Sleepwalking - What's the difference?

conscious | sleepwalking |

As an adjective conscious

is alert, awake.

As a noun sleepwalking is

the act of walking while not conscious or aware of it, during one's sleep.

As a verb sleepwalking is

present participle of sleepwalk.

conscious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Alert, awake.
  • Aware.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
  • *
  • Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.
  • Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
  • * 1999 , Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now , Hodder and Stoughton, pages 61–62:
  • The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come.  Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious' person more intensely ' conscious .

    Antonyms

    * asleep * unaware * unconscious

    Derived terms

    * consciously * consciousness * subconscious * unconscious * preconscious * price-conscious * self-conscious

    sleepwalking

    Noun

  • The act of walking while not conscious or aware of it, during one's sleep.
  • * 2005 , Marshall Brown, The Gothic Text (page 56)
  • The play presents a whole gamut of such causes, from irrational passions, omens, prophecies, haunted sleepwalkings , nightmares, prodigies of nature, and conjurings, to Laius's ghost in four incarnations

    Verb

    (head)