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Выражение "боль как рукой сняло" - the pain just vanished
Предположу, что боль можно заменит на сон и смысл все тот же будет.

I agree with the above suggestions. This traditional and frequently used idiom means that he woke up instantly, as if not sleeping at all.

But if you are looking for something more colourful and idiomatic, here is a couple of nice expressions to the same effect:

sleep disappeared like a popped soap bubble

sleep vanished as if by magic


Brian Dylan Web » Malice Chapter 1 Part 9
His eyes popped open and **sleep disappeared like a popped soap bubble**.
www.briandylan.com/?p=18

Suddenly, in the still of the night, we heard the sounds of a flute. A gentle, fluid melody was floating above the mountains and streaming down to the sea like the water of a spring. **Sleep vanished as if by magic.** "It's Kolya and Ksenya Pluzhnikov! It's them!
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Link to the second quote should be
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…that he tumbled up [rushed, jumped … out (of the dream)] into reality.
I put the word dream in the in brackets as a reader is already informed about night dream in previous sentence or fragment.
I appreciate all good versions my colleagues. They explain the main idea of the idiom, but it seems to me that the style of translated fiction requires something little bit fancy or specific.
It is my attempt to find something specific and underline rush that person awakened instantly; it inspired by “to tumble out of bed” – вскочить с постели. For more choices while further editing.

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OR:
The next moment he was wide awake.
His sleep was blown away.


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There was no sleep in him anymore... ...past Mushke's cellar with The windows painted black because There was mystery behind them that people whispered ...
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There was no sleep in him that night. He went to his office and laboured for hours over a verse which should adequately express the love ...
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Or, better still:
The next moment there was no sleep LEFT in him.

there was no sleep left in him, only memories, memories playing non-stop in his head. he lay on the bed, looking up at the ceiling, replaying the days of ...
www.geocities.com/sg1_oneills_house/fatherandson.htm

There was no sleep left in her now. "What do you want him for?" "He has my horse." "There is no horse here. "Look for yourself," she jerked her head ...
www.samizdat.com/micah/justice.html