Sleeping Into the Future

Sleeping into the future is quite an old trope and might well be the oldest time travel concept in human story telling. I don't think any of the examples we are looking at would go back farther than the mahabarta, which did not involve sleeping and was more of the time dilation version. There'rs some wonderful illustrations from this that i was able to look up that i believe were part of he original published story. And yet there's also a 17 71 tale by l s a mercier about an eighteenth century sleeper who awakes in the 20 fifth century. So many of these time travel yarns, they're just really jumping there, you know, they're going