""In cryo, you don't dream at all,""
""It doesn't feel like six years. More like a fifth of tequila and an ass-kicking.""
""Although hibernation is usually looked at in relation to winter or the cold, this is absolutely not necessary,""
""This is really important to clarify. There are animals that can hibernate in the tropics.""
Suspended animation serves as a recurring science-fiction device to move characters across great distances of space and time by combining cold, sleep, and technobabble. The trope traces from fairy-tale sleeps to speculative fiction by writers such as Mary Shelley, H.P. Lovecraft, and Arthur C. Clarke, and is visible in modern media from Futurama to Halo and Avatar. Uses range from plot-central premises in Passengers and Aurora to convenient plot devices that sidestep space-travel challenges. Typical portrayals show frozen, inactive bodies, but biological research into hibernation and deep sleep — including non-cold tropical hibernation — expands understanding and suggests real scientific advances are underway.
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