"waking up" like the process of awakening? Regaining memories from your past life?
"And thus in anguish Beren paid for that great doom upon him laid, the deathless love of LĂșthien, too fair for love of mortal Men; and in his doom was LĂșthien snared, the deathless in his dying shared; and Fate them forged a binding chain of living love and mortal pain."