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• s  carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger
• s  (of sleep) easily disturbed
  a restless wakeful night
• s  marked by full consciousness or alertness

• After a period of sleep, the volume of connections between nerve cells in the brain decreased, a condition that Tononi theorizes offsets the wakeful brain's activity.
• The wakeful, wretched rats grew scrawny and stopped growing.
• Elizabeth, a lifelong insomniac who spends her wakeful hours surfing the internet, came across the post and wrote back: "You don't get to judge me because you think you know .

• argus-eyed
• open-eyed
• vigilant
• light
• waking

News & Articles

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• Think You Can't Always Get What You Want? (...But If You TRY You Just Might...)
  Our website went down about midnight the other night and I was on the phone through the darkest morning hours with our tech team to solve the problem.  As I cradled the phone to one ear, and balanced my wakeful, 5 month old on my shoulder, it struck me how incredibly fortunate I was to be able to pursue my work and family passions ? to ?have my ALL.?  Though, by 2 AM, I do admit I was hoping for ...
  June 18, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Bart Cummings in The Age
  Think Money was never in the hunt in the Wakeful,said Cummings, who produced Marjorie for a third in the Oaks last year. "They went slow up front so she was never going to be able to figure when that happened. She was too far back and the...
• Pope Benedict XVI in Catholic Weekly
  She encourages us to remain wakeful, not to give in to the temptation of easy escapes, but to face reality with all its problems with courage and responsibility,Pope Benedict said.
• Gai Waterhouse in Melbourne Herald Sun
  Tuesday Joy proved her ability to back up quickly when she won the Wakeful Stakes and a few days later ran second in the Victoria Oaks last spring,trainer Gai Waterhouse said.