Da sa Peter til ham: «Herre, er det deg, så si at jeg skal komme til deg på vannet.» «Kom!» sa Jesus. Peter steg ut av båten og gikk på vannet bort til Jesus. Men da han merket hvordan det blåste, ble han redd og begynte å synke, og ropte: «Herre, frels meg!» Med en gang rakte Jesus hånden ut og grep fatt i ham. «Så lite tro du har!» sa han. «Hvorfor tvilte du?» Så steg de opp i båten, og vinden stilnet. Men de som var i båten, falt på kne for ham og sa: «Du er i sannhet Guds Sønn.»
– Mattheus 14:28-33

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To test antidepressants on rats, scientists rely on a method called the forced-swim test. Rats in a closed container of water will try to escape for several minutes before giving up and merely treading water. Researchers call this quiescence a “depressed” state and have found that rats given chemical or electrical antidepressants swim, dive and attempt to climb the walls longer before treading water than untreated rats do. Different types of treatments affect different aspects of the escape behavior.
– Magnetic Moods, Scientific American, April 2004

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“I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. “I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer today."

Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.
– Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

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"You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe."
– Morpheus