Like Something Out of a Dream

I'm not quite sure how something like this comes about... or if the physics are even possible (then again my knowledge of physics is about as in-depth as Stephen Hawkin's knowledge of Castlevania), but I always find it strange when an object from a dream winds up in your real life. Let me explain:

We were watching an episode of MacGyver (no surprise) and it promised to be one of the most ridiculous episodes yet. It was called "Serenity"--from the fifth season--and the whole episode was a dream sequence. After getting back from another exhausting adventure, MacGyver has a fight with Pete outside of the boathouse. Completely spent, Mac goes inside and falls asleep on the couch while watching an old Western. Of course, he now has a full dream about being in a Western. They also managed to shoe-horn every common character from the season in there... including Murdoc!

Okay, so aside from Cuba Gooding Jr. playing a liberated slave, a Cantonese-speaking Chinaman who has to deliver one of the most dramatic lines in the episode ("He dead!"), and MacGyver with a large bull-dog mustache, the episode played out like a decent television Western. Early on in the episode, however, Mac trades his handgun (which he refuses to use) to a man for an original Swiss Army Knife. No episode of MacGyver is complete without one, but this knife seemed special. It wasn't nearly as fancy as the ones you normally see; it was an original. To spoil the ending, MacGyver ends up getting shot by Murdoc, but is miraculously saved by the Swiss knife, which happened to be in his breast pocket so it could stop the bullet. Unfortunately, Murdoc escapes (probably the only time he wasn't "killed" at the end of an episode), and MacGyver wakes up in his boathouse.

At the very end of the episode, he looks on the floor of his house and finds... the original Swiss Army Knife, complete with bullet dent! I'm sure you have seen this cliche before. Someone is affected by something in his/her dream, only to wake up and find that very object sitting beside them (or tucked under his/her pillow). It doesn't make any sense, and yet makes the audience say, "Wait... was that a dream?!" Now, if this wasn't a dream, I don't know how the hell MacGyver got to the Old West. It just doesn't make sense how something like that could be around and the character not know about it before he went to sleep.

I wish that when I dream about being rich, or having a nice car, that I'll wake up some day and it will be there. And I can act surprised... but I won't be... because I'm expecting it.