Experiencing life in a dream?

[Legend]

I've had this interesting experience yesterday (technically this morning).  At night, I was watching t.v. and took 2 of my fav. stuffed animals (yah; even though I'm grown up <lol>) and placed them on my lap.  For whatever reason, I thought for a brief second (I'll have one daughter and one son. One was female and the other male) so my dream may have been caused by that, but it left my mind pretty quickly after the initial thought came around, so here goes the dream:

The dream (unfortunately) is slightly blurry now since it's been ~18hrs since I've had it, but somehow, I recall making love to a girl (I almost feel like it was an acquaintance I had made in Vegas last year, but maybe that was just my brain associating a face to a person; she lives too far anyways \).  This part was more of a fact then an event I experienced in the dream.  At one point, time shifted quickly and I realized that I was a single father; that I would have a daughter.  Time moved on quickly and her age was around 7 I'd guess.  The interesting part is that I felt what I would best disrobe as "fatherly love".  One where the child precedes everything in your life.  I also experienced the child's birth, but the weird thing is that no mother was actually involved.  It was like the child "came to be" somehow.  This part is unfortunately slightly blurry.

I don't have any kids and have been single for quite some time, so this was a pretty interesting feeling.  I don't think I had experienced this type of "love" before.  It's also weird technically speaking since you will typically not find a single dad where the mom is not at all in the picture (I have no clue what had happened, but the mom simply wasn't there).

What made this dream especially weird is that I didn't actually go through a plot or a set of actions.  It's not like I was walking and this happen or something of that nature.  It was more like a backwash of information flooding my mind at given points in time.  Sort'a like someone thinking back about the things they have done in the past.  They don't actually see/touch/etc the actions, but they recall their state given the events that happened.

Maybe it's another me experiencing this in another realm.  Who knows \  Time will tell...