Suspended animation, orcryogenic stasis, was the temporary cessation of a life form's vital functions, often used to transport individuals from one time period to another withoutageing ordegeneration.

Dreaming didn't occur during suspended animation. (AUDIO:Time's Horizon)

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Azal was placed in suspended animation by theKotturuh, (PROSE:The Guide to the Dark Times) until eventually being awoken bythe Master in the20th century. (TV:The Dæmons)

Time Lordstasis cubes, which were created to preserve moments intime asart, could be used for suspended animation. OnEarth, stasis cubes were used byZygon survivors of theLast Great Time War to survive from theElizabethan era into the21st century. (TV:The Day of the Doctor)

Whenever they journeyed across the universe in their greatGuerner Transport Ships,Guerners placed themselves into suspended animation by laying in berths undersonic beams. When the sonic beams were switched off, the Guerners would awaken, not having aged a day, although the process erased theirmemories. (PROSE:The Sleeping Beast)

Amy Pond observed that theSilurians used a sort of suspended animation. (TV:Cold Blood)

In1893,Winifred Gillyflower used dilutedred leech venom to create a chemical form of suspended animation to preserve her followers atSweetville. (TV:The Crimson Horror)

In1901,Torchwood Three placedJack Harkness (who had been buried alive since27 A.D.) in cryogenic suspension so he could return to the21st century without crossing his own time stream. (TV:Exit Wounds) In1918, they placedTommy Brockless in cryogenic suspension so that he could one day close a fracture in theCardiff Space-Time Rift. (TV:To the Last Man)

By the late1960s, after he died,Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen. (PROSE:Cat's Cradle: Warhead,AUDIO:The Web of Time)

In the 21st century, Jack placed his brotherGray in cryogenic suspension after chloroforming him when he threatened Cardiff and fatally wounded Jack's teammate,Toshiko Sato. He planned to keep Gray frozen indefinitely until he could find a way to sort out the anger his brother harboured towards him. (TV:Exit Wounds) However, the Torchwood Hub was destroyed when a bomb implanted inside Jack detonated. (TV:Children of Earth: Day One)

In2119, the pilot of the ship picked up bythe Drum was thought to be suspended in a suspended animation chamber. (TV:Under the Lake/Before the Flood)

After theThal-Dalek battle, theDalek Supreme and theembryoDaleks who existed on theDalek City'sincubation level went into a state of suspended animation until theThalscientistTryana discovered the level. (AUDIO:Return to Skaro) OnSpiridon in the26th century, the Daleks usedrefrigeration units to preserve themselves in suspended animation. (TV:Planet of the Daleks) By one account, the Daleks placed themselves in suspended animation in the28th century until the45th century. (AUDIO:Plague of the Daleks) During theKotturuh crisis, theDalek Prime Strategist awakened an army ofRed Daleks from suspended animation only to find that they had all been corrupted bythe Entity. (WC:The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy)

Davros was sentenced to be placed in suspended animation as punishment for his crimes. (TV:Resurrection of the Daleks)

Tranquil Repose placed dying millionaires and politicians in suspended animation until cures for their conditions could be found. (TV:Revelation of the Daleks)

Abigail Pettigrew was cryogenically frozen byElliot Sardick against a loan of 4,500gideons to her family. She suffered from a fatal disease that would soon claim her life unless she remained frozen. Her family kept her in this state, hoping a cure would be found for her condition. She remained frozen past Elliot's ownership and was passed down to his son,Kazran Sardick. TheEleventh Doctor woke her to calm asky shark hunting himself and a younger Kazran by singing to it. He continued to visit Kazran every year atChristmas Eve, waking up Abigail each time. Abigail's life expectancy was limited to a very small number of days estimated by a counter on her stasis pod, which fell by one each time she was removed from cryogenic freeze. Though Kazran and Abigail fell in love with each other, her counter ran down to one final day, which he withheld until he became an old man for a last outing with her on Christmas Eve. (TV:A Christmas Carol)

In6087,humans placed themselves in suspended animation on theNerva Beacon in order to survive thesolar flares that devastatedEarth. (TV:The Ark in Space)

Millions of years later, in the what the humans of that era call the57th Segment of Time, the human race were miniaturised and placed in suspended animation on theArk to survive the long voyage toRefusis II. (TV:The Ark)

TheSeventh Doctor once spent unspecified millions of years in a coma, frozen within a block ofice. Though his clothing had mostly rotted away over the years, his body survived and he recovered fully. (AUDIO:Frozen Time)

During theLast Great Time War, following theDalek Time Strategist's restoration of the Dalek Empire toN-Space, the resurrectedDalek Prime ordered thealternate Davros placed in stasis, believing that the simulacrum might be of use in the future. (AUDIO:Restoration of the Daleks) Later in the conflict,Vassarian suspended himself in theEternity Cage untilhis TARDIS repaired itself or help arrived. As the Cage activated however, Vassarian began toregenerate. With both procedures cancelling the other out, Vassarian burnt through his entireregeneration cycle. While the Cage suspended his ruined body, Vassarian's mind remained active. (AUDIO:The Eternity Cage)

Following the Time War, theTime LordprisonShada had several Time Lord prisoners held in suspended animation. (COMIC:The One)