A mental state where your thought process is exactly the same as when you experience insomnia. Generally understood to be triggered by intense and prolonged boredom, from which the patient cannot physically escape, and so psychologically removes them self from their situation.
Over spring break, Jane had to go with her parents to her great-uncle's funeral. When she got back to University, she binge drank to forget the awful memory of experiencing "Waking Insomnia" from sitting through the endless ceremonies for the dead Uncle she didn't give a fuck about.
by thecrippler June 29, 2011
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