Awakenings

n. process of waking up

For the book by Oliver Sacks see Awakenings (book) Awakenings is a 1990 drama film based on Oliver Sacks' memoir, Awakenings. It tells the true story of a doctor (Oliver Sacks, fictionalized as Malcolm Sayer) who, in 1969, discovers beneficial effects of the then-new drug L-Dopa. He applied it on catatonic patients who survived the 1917-1928 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica. Leonard Lowe (played by Robert De Niro) and the rest of the patients were awakened after decades of catatonic state and have to deal with a new life in a new time.
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Noun
1. the act of waking; "it was an early awakening"; "it was the waking up he hated most"
(synonym) wakening, waking up
(hypernym) arousal, rousing
(hyponym) reveille
(derivation) wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken

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