@anon said I should continue to dream so I did:

Today, I dreamed that I fell in love with a girl that ate cooked but refrigerated pasta in the supermarket without buying it first.

I was very surprised by this behavior and I asked her if she is not worried about getting into trouble. She said it's not a problem, she will simply pay when she's leaving. She then invited me to sit and eat with her.

As it turned out, she was known for this and the clerks then even served her like waiters. However, she didn't ask for this. They brought her all kinds of stuff that she should try but she was also familiar with this spiel: they just wanted to trick her into paying for all of this stuff later. But she knew exactly what she wanted, and that was only this cold pasta (that I thought must taste horrible cold) and having a fun conversation with someone which happened to be me.

While we talked, we exchanged numbers and she embodied freedom and swimming against the stream more and more for me. Apparently, that's all I need to fall in love with someone. And maybe pretty infectious laughter.

At some point, I believed we already parted ways and I considered calling her back immediately because I was so intrigued by her but I hesitated. I didn't want to come off as clingy or desperate.

But as weird as dreams are, while considering if I should call her, write her or wait for a day, she texted me first and told me she had to leave and I seemed busy so she didn't say anything but it was nice meeting me. I was surprised because as mentioned, I thought we left the supermarket together and then parted ways. But then I looked up from the phone and I was still in the store and suddenly, it seemed like this whole conversation mostly just happened over text.

What then grabbed my attention was that the messenger we used had status updates integrated into the private chat in a way I've never seen before. I continuously received automated status updates from her like "arrived home" or "dressed in casual now". And I don't mean text messages that she typed herself. These status updates were separate messages with a corresponding emoji for every status update. It seemed like she enabled something in her messenger that would keep me updated about what she's doing as if she wants to keep me involved in her life.

That intrigued me even more. I wanted to ask her why she would give all of this information to a stranger like me that she just met. But then I woke up.