[bagster]

What was the fictional story involving a person falling asleep and winding up with tree roots curled all around them?

Tolkien's "Tom Bombadil?"

Melian knows.

Poor old Willow-man, you tuck your roots away!
Tom's in a hurry now. Evening will follow day.
Tom's going home again water-lilies bringing.
Hey! Come derry dol! Can you hear me singing?

[Melian]

And the forest of Fangorn seemed to do it, as well. :)

I happened upon this after a search for Make It Rain:

“On my subway ride to work this morning, I played a mobile game that had me furiously swiping upward on my iPhone with alternating thumbs to make big green virtual dollar bills fly up and off the phone screen. It’s called “Make It Rain,” and it’s currently the No. 1 free app in Apple’s app store.

All my ridiculous-looking swiping garnered me a bunch of virtual money, so I spent some of it to buy virtual buckets that would fill up with cash in the background when I wasn’t using the app. Later in the day, the virtual FBI investigated my virtual stockpile and was going to seize it, but I bought them off with a virtual bribe.”

Apparently the game is a cynical look at making money through corruption.

[little jeremiah]

I love the Tom Bombadil part! Too bad they left him out of the movie.