Awake
Up on
Up on adjective - Being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- For a similar reaction from someone who is awake, but taken by surprise, see Don't Sneak Up On Me Like That.
Source: Wake-Up Fighting -
The tour starts with a world within a world and a half awake girl setting up the monsters from the dreamworld showing up on the stage, and it gets madder from there.
Source: Dream Within a Dream - Josef Stalin trained himself to sleep with his eyes open, to make potential assassins think he was awake so they couldn't sneak up on him.
Source: Sleeps With Both Eyes Open
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