sleeping vs waking

sleeping

noun
  • The state of being asleep, or an instance of this. 

adj
  • Asleep. 

  • Used for sleep; used to produce sleep. 

waking

noun
  • The act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake. 

adj
  • Occurring during wakefulness. 

How often have the words sleeping and waking occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )