In his book, Awakenings, Dr. Oliver Sacks recounted the cases of his patients who had contracted sleeping sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. They were frozen in time until 1969 when Sacks gave them the medication L-DOPA and the patients “awakened”. The book, and the movie based on the book, explore questions of health, disease, suffering, care and human connection. What might our own awakenings be?