The Hotel Room anomaly is a replica of a hotel room that serves as a temporary location, in unknown space and time, for David Bowman to make his evolutionary transformation from flesh and blood into an energy being, in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
2001: A Space Odyssey[]
"In an empty room, floating amid the fires of a double star twenty thousand light-years from Earth, a baby opened its eyes..."
The monolith aliens left behind one of the largest monoliths discovered, in the Jovian System. Upon discovering the monolith, David Bowman enters a Star Gate that ports him into a replica of a Hotel Room. Here Bowman ages quickly, from an older man dressed in black to a very elderly man in a white robe. After the assumption of his death, Bowman reincarnates into a Star Child entering the womb of space. The Hotel Room anomaly dissipates just like a dream.
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In the novel, the Hotel Room included a TV which featured channels and programs that the Jovian Monolith picked up around the time TMA-1 was discovered on the moon.
The novel also notes that while objects in the Hotel Room superficially resemble Earth objects, the details are off. For example the books have no pages and are instead solid rectangular objects with nonsense text on the cover. Bowman also finds cereal boxes filled with a blue substance similar in texture to bread pudding.