Why do you call it awakening?  For you have indeed been dreaming, slumbering, unconscious and unaware that all around you is a projection of the Mind.  Did you notice that capital M?  This is the oneness so many of the awakened ones speak of.  “But how could there be only one Mind?” you ask, when clearly here I am and there they are and we do not think alike at all.  In fact, look at how those others think!  They make me so angry!”  Ah, there you go.  Lost in the story again.  And awakening?  When you can watch the two sides spar and not be affected, knowing it is part of the play that you at a soul level have chosen to act out so that you can practice unconditional love, then you will no longer be sleeping.  It is your choice.  It always has been.  You can awaken whenever you like and you will be Home in Awareness, which is all you have always been.  You are so very loved.