• Answered the alarm
• Became active
• Became alert
• Began to stir
• Blinked the sleep from one's eyes
• Came alive
• Came around
• Came around after a knockout
• Came to
• Exited dreamland
• Finished a nap
• Finished napping
• Got up
• Greeted the day
• Heard reveille
• Heard the alarm
• Heard the alarm clock
• Heard the bugler
• Heard the clock alarm
• Heeded the alarm
• Ignored the snooze button?
• Left Morpheus's arms
• Left Nod
• Left slumberland
• Left the arms of Morpheus
• Opened one's eyes
• Recovered from a true knockout
• Responded to an alarm
• Responded to reveille
• Responded to the alarm
• Responded to the rooster
• Returned from dreamland
• Roused
• Roused from sleep
• Shut off the alarm
• Skipped the snooze alarm
• Stirred
• Stirred after a shaking
• Stirred up, as memories
• Stopped dreaming
• Stopped sleeping
• Stopped slumbering
• Stopped snoozing
• Tame coup