When I open my MacBook lid sometime the screen doesn't work!

Hi, I have found that recently, when I open the lid of my MacBook Pro it does not wake from sleep properly. The sleep light goes out and I can hear the hard drive spinning, but the display does not work.
I have to turn off the mbp and restart it, then it will work. It works sometime, it tends to be when I leave it closed for too long that it does this.
Can anyone help??
Thanks
Tom

I am having this same problem. The computer itself is awake, but the display stays blank. I can restart it by pressing the power button then 'R' then 'return'. This just starting happening frequently recently for me. It may be the result of one of the more recent security updates.

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