History Main / FantasyKeepsake

* In the ending of ''Film/FourteenOhEight'', with the protagonist [[spoiler:having escaped the haunted room]], it could be thought that everything he went through was some kind of hallucination, with either a natural or supernatural cause –- except that his tape recorder has his daughter's voice on it.

->''"If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye, what then?"''

Sister trope to FantasyAllAlong.

* A variant occurs in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' when John is dreaming in the Dream Bubbles in the [[EldritchLocation Furthest Ring]] (Which also doubles as an afterlife for dead Sburb players from thousands of alternate timlines). At one point, he finds a ring (Later revealed to be able to bring ghosts to life), but is woken up when his dream projection is impaled by Meenah's trident. He is surprised to find that he still has the ring when he wakes up. Items can also be brought into the Dream Bubbles too, and using this both ways allows Aranea to [[spoiler: Mind-control Gamzee into sleeping and bringing her the ring so she can bring herself to life with it, then waking him up while touching him so she will be transported to where he was sleeping]].

* In ''Fanfic/AFrozenFlower'', Orchid's dream ends with her encountering a locked box, which she uses her powers to destroy. Inside the box is what eventually turns out to be a white circle with a single red button on it that will [[HeroicSuicide end her life]] when pressed, and she puts it in her back pocket. When she wakes up, she feels something hard in her back pocket and realizes exactly what's happened, although she doesn't find out what the keepsake is until a couple chapters later.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. In "Unrealised Reality", a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien shows John Crichton a timeline with an EverybodyDiesEnding. John claims that what he saw must be an illusion until the alien indicates the handful of hair John is still clutching from someone he left there.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Barbie}}'' film ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheNutcracker'', Clara wakes up after her adventure and finds her nutcracker missing. She then meets Eric, who looks identical to the human form of the Nutcracker Prince and gives her a locket identical to the one that was used to return her to the real world, which proves she wasn't dreaming (and indicates that he is the Nutcracker).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Barbie}}'' film ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheNutcracker'', Clara wakes up after her adventure and finds her nutcracker missing. She then meets Eric, the human form of the Nutcracker Prince, which proves she wasn't dreaming.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Barbie}}'' film ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheNutcracker'', meeting Eric, the Nutcracker Prince, in real life proves she wasn't dreaming.

** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E25TheInnerLight The Inner Light]]", Picard lives another life through a mental connection with a space probe. The man whose life he gets to live (Kamin) is an accomplished flute player. After living for 40 years in the simulation (but less than 30 minutes in real life), Picard wakes up as himself...and find Kamin's flute inside the probe.

* Subverted in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E12TheSting The Sting]]". Leela, believing Fry to be dead, keeps having dreams in which he tries to convince her otherwise. In one such, he [[YouMustBeCold puts his jacket on her shoulders]] and she's still wearing it when she wakes up. However, when she goes to show the jacket to the rest of the crew, what she has is her own jacket and not Fry's. [[spoiler:Ultimately, it turns out that ''all'' of this was [[AdventuresInComaland a coma-induced dream, and she's the one who almost died]]. When she wakes up, she finds herself wearing Fry's jacket as [[UnbrokenVigil Fry himself waited by her side]], implying she subconsciously felt the stimulus of his acts and incorporated them in her dream.]]

* Subverted in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E12TheSting The Sting]]". Leela, believing Fry to be dead, keeps having dreams in which he tries to convince her otherwise. In one such, he [[YouMustBeCold puts his jacket on her shoulders]] and she's still wearing it when she wakes up. However, when she goes to show the jacket to the rest of the crew, what she has is her own jacket and not Fry's. Ultimately, it turns out that ''all'' of this was a dream, and she's the one who almost died.

** In ''[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E25TheInnerLight The Inner Light]]'', Picard lives another live through a mental connection with a probe. The man whose life he gets to live (Kamin) is an accomplished flute player. After living for 40 years in the simulation (but less than 30 minutes in real life), Picard wakes up as himself...and find Kamin's flute inside the probe.

* ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}''. The episode "Pavor Nocturnus" had Helen Magnus awake to find herself in a BadFuture, where she acquires a BadassTrenchcoat. This turns out to be AllJustADream projected by a creature trying to stop her from taking the artifact that could cause the bad future scenario - but she still has the trenchcoat, implying she may have been literally sent forward into a timeline that she's now averted.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Pen Pals" Data becomes friends with a little girl named Sarjenka and saves her planet from earthquakes that would render said planet uninhabitable. In the end our crew is forced to wipe her memory before returning her to her home, but Data still puts a "[[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Elanin_singer_stone singer stone]]" in her hand that she was admiring earlier, despite knowing that she won't remember where it came from.
** In the episode ''Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E25TheInnerLight'', Picard lives another live through a mental connection with a probe. The man whose life he gets to live (Kamin) is an accomplished flute player. After living for 40 years in the simulation (but less than 30 minutes in real life), Picard wakes up as himself...and find Kamin's flute inside the probe.