Editing HorizonVirtual:The Waker Dictionary (section)

==Awakening==
(noun) The moment when a [[#Dreamer|dreamer]] that was present at, and survived, a [[#Progenitor_Virus|progenitor virus]] attack on a [[#System|system]] attains self awareness and metamorphoses into a [[#Waker|waker]]. This metamorphosis usually occurs some time after the progenitor virus attacker has departed the now-ravaged system.

What exactly happens to a dreamer during this process, or how it comes to posess code from the attacking progenitor virus, is unknown; the only survivors of progenitor virus attacks are the newly-Awakened wakers produced by the attack, none of whom ever remember what happened to them as dreamers or how. It is assumed that the waker-to-be is left in some form of comatose, near-death state during the attack, as the progenitor virus would otherwise almost certainly ensure the waker-to-be's destruction before it departed the now-ravaged system.

* Verb:  Awaken, Awakens, Awakened, Awoken.