coming to oneself

Verb

come to oneself (third-person singular simple present comes to oneself, present participle coming to oneself, simple past came to oneself, past participle come to oneself)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To gain consciousness or self-control.
   • When I came to myself I was lying, not in the outer blackness of the Mohune vault, not on a floor of sand; but in a bed of sweet clean linen, and in a little whitewashed room, through the window of which the spring sunlight streamed.[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC