Fell in love with someone in a dream?

I had about 5 recurring dreams last night about this one person that I've never met or seen before in my life. When one dream would end I would wake up and go back to sleep and continue the dream, with the same person but in a different situation. Me and this person were deeply deeply in love, I would do anything for this person, it felt like true unconditional love. It was the strongest feeling and most wonderful thing I've ever felt in my life and literally cried for 3 hours after I woke up because I missed that feeling and deeply missed that person with all of my heart, and a day later I am still in love with this person I have never met. Has this happened to anyone else? What does this mean? Is this person real and having the same dreams about me somewhere? lol. I don't normally ask about these things but the feelings are so intense and I'm so distraught now that he's gone, I had to...