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== [[Literature]] ==

* [[John Brunner]]'s ''[[Telepathist]]'' has Howson, the therapeutic telepath, entering the absurdly detailed Oriental fantasy dream-state of a catatonic patient. After a series of events, he brings the patient out of the fugue by naming Tiger City as the tiger, and his sword, which had slain a dragon, as the dragon. Both objects then turn into their respective animals and fight. Howson wins because "the tiger is the second strongest animal", and the other man wakes up. {{spoiler|Subverted, as the patient was also a telepath -- he'd put such blatant [[Weaksauce Weakness|weaknesses]] in it because he'd created the fantasy as a sort of ''holiday'', and wanted to be brought out of it easily.}}

** {{spoiler|In at least one version of the book, the catatonic telepath is caught completely by surprise. He'd set up [[Magic a Is Magic A|the laws of magic]] so that the above fight was possible with minimal [[Inception]]-style "cheating" on Howson's part, but he'd expected the people on the outside to send a less experienced therapeutic telepath, who would screw up and get noticed, at which point the catatonic guy would wake up on his own.}}

** {{spoiler|In at least one version of the book, the catatonic telepath is caught completely by surprise. He'd set up [[Magic A Is Magic A|the laws of magic]] so that the above fight was possible with minimal [[Inception]]-style "cheating" on Howson's part, but he'd expected the people on the outside to send a less experienced therapeutic telepath, who would screw up and get noticed, at which point the catatonic guy would wake up on his own.}}

* In David Brin's novel ''Earth'', the on-screen representations of two software packages that end up fighting each other with the fate of the world at stake happen to be a tiger and a dragon.

* In [[1632]] in the [[Battle Couple]] Jeff and Gretchen Jeff is laid back and Gretchen is forceful.