WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

come alive
    v 1: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm
         clock" [syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken,
         wake, come alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze
         off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep,
         flake out, nod off]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

34 Moby Thesaurus words for "come alive":
   awake, awaken, be begotten, be born, be incarnated,
   come into being, come into existence, come to, come to life,
   descry, discern, get up, live again, make out, penetrate, perceive,
   pierce, plumb, quicken, reanimate, resurge, resuscitate,
   return to life, revive, rise again, rouse, see, see daylight,
   see into, see the light, see through, stir, wake, wake up