The famous Dr. Jason Veldor has made a potion that eliminates the need for sleep. The only trouble is, it’s devastatingly addictive, and for better or worse, it takes Veldor’s mind into the lives in other times and other dimensions.
Michael Main
To come to my point, Richard, I have for many years been very disgusted with the fact that all the human race—indeed every living organism—must waste a third of its life in sleep. Think what a race we’d be if we never slept!

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  1. “He Never Slept” by John Russell Fearn , in Astounding Stories, June 1934.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by John Russell Fearn

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  1. TIme Travel—It could be argued that all of Veldor’s trips are dreams, but the trip to the future makes us claim that he has actually traveled, but only as a noninteracting observer.