How do we understand the un/responsiveness of lay publics to knowledge of catastrophic futures? What are the spatial inflections of these responses? Much has been said of our ambivalent engagement with catastrophic futures, of varied forms of denial and delay, our awareness and anxiety alongside an inability to act, as we ‘sleepwalk’ into catastrophe. In this chapter, the author reviews and contributes to this research, by attending to the opposing end of the spectrum of responses: The ‘awakening’ of anticipatory subjectivities attuned to immanent and imminent catastrophe and making ready for survival. The author considers the rise and theoretical significance of metaphors of ‘sleeping’ and ‘awakening’ as descriptors of individual and collective cognitive, political and affective responses to future crisis. Examining awakened subjectivities and their attendant practices highlights the spatial multiplicities of catastrophic futures as everyday realities. This has wider implications for understanding environmental controversies and the links between cognition, emotion, and agency in the patterning of responses to environmental futures.