I wonder what it would be like to wake up and realize 6 months or a year or longer had passed.
Also, would this mean you don’t “age” during that time - if your body is not growing cells, this would mean you aren’t technically getting older, right?
The concept actually sounds very good - I mean, assuming you had a serious illness, they could put you into hibernation until they could figure what to do.
Would you be willing to make like a bear and hibernate?
I am obviously making the assumption in this post that my body slowed by “hibernation” would slow my aging, say 1 year of hibernation = 2 months or so of aging … I have absolutely no basis for that whatsoever.
But if it worked that way, depending on my personal situation, in abstract I’d like to do it at the end of my life … say 84 and s-l-o-w it all down to down to make it to 100.
My dad used to ‘hibernate’ to save money. Basically, he wouldn’t spend any money unnecessarily. It would be nice if I could hibernate through the winter to save the cost of propane heating.
I can see it now:
“In tonights news, authorities discovered a local area family was found sound asleep for 3 months, and their personal possessions missing.”
Lets not allow this get into the wrong hands, ok? :eek:
I think that they used to put people in “suspended animation” for months at a time to make them lose weight. One of my college professors said something about the singer Caruso doing this. Has anyone else heard this?
Well if a bear loses all that weight then it’s still metabolizing, right? I always wondered how their kidneys stayed functional. I’m totally lost. Wake me up when dumb people run the earth.
This was in Valley of the Dolls – they called it the Sleep Cure, I think, and it was used (in the book, I don’t know about real life) both for dieting and for drug rehab. Just for a week, not for a month, and it was sodium pentathol or something, not suspended animation.
