Come To Life Meaning

(intransitive, idiomatic) to appear as if alive

Example: 1999, Lee Smolin, New York Times, We All Came From Mars:
  We want to know exactly how the first cells came to life on earth.
  The CGI-generated characters came to life through an incredible display of a cutting-edge 3D technology.
to start to become energetic.
2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”[1], BBC Sport:
  It was only after Yakubu sliced another chance into the side netting, a bad miss by the former Everton striker, that Norwich came to life.