I had an interesting story idea today.<\/p>\n
It came to me in the last few hours of work at the writing lab.\u00a0 I was dead tired, and started thinking about how awesome it would be if I could carry over sleep from one night to the next.\u00a0 You know: sleep 12 or 16 hours on the weekend in order to be awake for two or three straight days without getting tired.<\/p>\n
I started talking about it with my coworkers, and from there we took it even further.\u00a0 What if you could hibernated for two or three months and spend the rest of the year completely awake?\u00a0 That would be pretty sweet.<\/p>\n
So then, I started thinking: what if there were an alien species that actually operated this way?\u00a0 Their life cycle would probably evolve around the seasonal weather cycles of their home planet, so they would hibernate in the “winter” and spend the rest of the time awake.<\/p>\n
Before they developed enough technology to be able to control their environment, the entire society would have followed this cycle.\u00a0 Everyone would hibernate roughly simultaneously, and spend the rest of the time awake.\u00a0 With new technological developments, however, the cycle would be broken up, with aliens coming and going out of hibernation as they chose.<\/p>\n
How would this affect society?\u00a0 How would they have to structure their economy, their community, and their other social functions?\u00a0 How would this affect their relationships with each other, if for three months out of a year these aliens would just sleep?\u00a0 How would this complicate their military?\u00a0 How would it affect their colonization of other worlds?<\/p>\n
This is not a very well developed idea at this point, but it’s a good launching point.\u00a0 Besides, it’s just kind of cool.\u00a0 If I could have a superpower, it would be the ability to go indefinitely without sleep and not suffer any physiological consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had an interesting story idea today. It came to me in the last few hours of work at the writing lab.\u00a0 I was dead tired, and started thinking about how awesome it would be if I could carry over sleep from one night to the next.\u00a0 You know: sleep 12 or 16 hours on… Continue reading Idea: hibernation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-story-ideas","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-5h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}