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** Dude, thanks a lot, now I won't be able to sleep for days—got to look for the exit protocols . . .

* ''The Saint'' story ''The Darker Drink'' plays with this on multiple levels. A man named Big Bill Holbrook claims to serve as the dream avatar of Andrew Faulk of Glendale, California. He encounters the Saint in the High Sierras. Holbrook claims that the personages from a recurring dream Faulk had have started to manifest in the waking world. Templar takes a jewel off of Holbrook. When thugs searching for Holbrook open fire on Templar, he loses consciousness. When he awakens later, he has no injuries, but still feels the jewel he took from Holbrook in his pocket. When he searches for Andrew Faulk in Glendale, he discovers that Faulk died after slipping into a coma. Templar intends to show Faulk's widow the jewel from Holbrook, but it has disappeared from his pocket.

* [[Gregory Benford]]'s short story "Sleepstory" features a space pilot fighting a war on Ganymede who gets a little compressed downtime with a dream-guiding narrative system, telling a story about an engineer in Los Angeles trying to fix breaches in the dams that keep the [[Hollywood Global Warming]]-afflicted seas from flooding the city ...or possibly the other way round.

* Near the end of [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=u2A4BNkN--oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Farther+up+and+farther+in&source=bl&ots=vquxYMuHp0&sig=EJZlJ0aR8ORmi5v6Eu7znJsCHOc&hl=en&ei=IC2rTLqtMYKUjAf33_jsBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CDAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false Farther Up and Farther In] the hero wakes up in hospital thinking that all the weird stuff that happened before was a near-death hallucination. Until he opens his computer and finds it holds the story he wrote in Asgard at the start of Part 3...

 

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