  A perturbed system relaxes towards an equilibrium given by a minimum in the
potential energy landscape. This often occurs by thermally activated jumps over
metastable states. The corresponding dynamics is named creep and follows
Arrhenius' law. Here we consider the situation where the equilibrium position
depends on temperature. We show that this effect occurs in the vortex lattice
of the anisotropic superconductor $2\mathrm{H}$-$\mathrm{Nb}\mathrm{Se}_{2}$
when the magnetic field is tilted away from the principal axes, and that it
leads to the peculiar appearance of creep when cooling the sample. Temperature
determines the system's ground state and at the same time brings the system
back to equilibrium, playing a dual and antagonistic role. We expect that
cooling induced creep occurs in correlated systems with many degrees of freedom
allowing to tune the equilibrium state via heat treatment.
