Conscious
Conscious adjective - Having specified facts or feelings actively impressed on the mind.
Sleeping
Sleeping adjective - Being in a state of suspended consciousness.
Usage example: a roomful of sleeping preschoolers at a daycare center
Both words in one sentence
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He is semi-conscious when he gets back, gets even more danger and revelatory crap dumped on him, and is mercifully put out with sleeping potion afterwards.
Source: Post-Victory Collapse - Intimate Healing: After saving her from almost drowning, Talaysen has to warm up a hypothermic and semi-conscious Rune without anything to make a fire with, so he climbs into a sleeping bag with her.
Source: Literature / Bardic Voices - Being brought in another dimension, turned into an undead, impaled on a stake, and left forever conscious and unable to do anything except staring at a pyramid containing a sleeping Eldritch Abomination.
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