Awoke or woke up vs came awake
Michael was in deep sleep, then suddenly came awake.
So it's the first time I came upon the word "came awake". I assume it means the same as "woke up". Does it really? How it differs from "woke up" or "awoke"? Or is it just not a usual way of saying it? Would you sound normal if you'd use "came awake" on daily basis?
Came awake is not a normal way of saying it. The iWeb corpus has 85,784 instances of woke up, against 54 instances of came awake.
To me it suggests the suddenness of is - reinforced by the explicit suddenly. H didn't gradually wake up, he came awake.