I'm trying to remember the name of a short story I read about 25 years ago or so. I'd also like to know of any collections it appeared in.
The details I recall involve a family who are embarking on a hyperspace journey. To undertake this journey you have to be put to sleep. One of the children pretends to be asleep, and when the jump is complete the child has gone insane. From the child's point of view the jump lasted for an eternity while in reality it was only a few seconds.
Answer
Sounds like Stephen King's The Jaunt.
From Wikipedia:
The father then reveals the nature of why any conscious being goes insane or dies after being Jaunted: while physically the process occurs nearly instantaneously (the condemned man traveled two miles between two portals in 0.000000000067 seconds), to a conscious mind it lasts an eternity
and
When the father wakes, he finds that his inquisitive son held his breath while being administered the general anesthesia in order to experience the Jaunt while conscious, and has been rendered completely insane.
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