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* In ''[[BlaBlå Tornet]]'', the protagonist survives through his youth by developing this mindset. He is truly a heretic, but he is also a priest in a society hellbent on sniffing out all heretics and burying them alive. His solution is to never lie, a lie would eventually be discovered. Instead, he actively chose to believe in two simultaneous realities... and he quite incorrectly assume that everyone else is smart enough to pull off the same kind of dual reality. In reality, almost everyone else in his world is actually exactly as narrow-minded as they come across.

* In one [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_Command_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation%29Chain of Command chr(28)Star Trek: The Next Generationchr(29)|unusually creepy episode]] of ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'', {{spoiler|Picard}} gets captured as a spy and tortured by the enemy. One recurring question is how many lights are illuminating the room. It's really four, but the torturer [[Two Plus Torture Equals Five|insists that they are five]] - and he isn't satisfied with a lie about there being five lights, the hero is required to truly believe it. In the end, {{spoiler|the protagonist thinks he truly sees five lights for a moment, and he later confesses this to the ship's counselor. While the torture scene is directly inspired by ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', the ending offers a few new twists to the theme.}}