In some sci-fi narratives, the final frontier of human experience is space. In other stories, it’s time. But, in all cases, the real final frontier just might be what happens in our brains when we’re asleep. From prose to TV to film, the genre of science fiction has always tackled speculative tales about sleep with bold ideas and strange results. Is sleep something to master? Can we use sleep to save our lives? To destroy our way of life? What is the purpose of sleep in the future? Can we use it to travel in time?
Here are 11 of the most iconic and interesting science fiction stories — from across various media — which reveal the strange dimensions of dreams and sleep.
