come to one's senses

Idioms  

1. Return to thinking or behaving sensibly and reasonably; recover consciousness. For example, I wish he'd come to his senses and stop playing around. This term employs senses in the sense of “normal or sane mental faculties,” and in the earliest recorded use (1637) it meant “recover from a swoon.” Its broader present-day meaning dates from the mid-1800s. The related bring someone to his or her senses was used by John Gay in his Beggars' Opera (1727). Also see take leave (of one's senses).

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Example Sentences

Ay, Inger was grown reasonable now; 'tis no little thing to come to one's senses again after a spell.

From Growth of the Soil by Hamsun, Knut

V. be sane &c. adj.; retain one's senses, retain one's reason. become sane &c. adj.; come to one's senses, sober down. render sane &c. adj.; bring to one's senses, sober.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark