Stephen King: The Jaunt. Summary and analysis
In a future where teleportation—called “The Jaunt”—allows instant travel between planets, the Oates family is preparing to move to Mars. While they wait, the father tells his children the story of The Jaunt and the experiments that revealed a disturbing detail: although the physical journey lasts a fraction of a second, the conscious mind perceives it as an unbearable eternity. For this reason, before traveling, all passengers are anesthetized so that they face the procedure asleep. Fascinated by the story, the eldest son decides to experience the journey awake. Upon arriving on Mars, his body survives, but his mind goes mad when confronted with the temporal abyss of consciousness without stimuli.
