Anyone Frequent "Mall World" In Their Dreams

The "hyper/real/modern University campus" seems to be involved in "Mall World" as well. Adjacent to perhaps, same side of town. It's difficult to describe how the areas of this place/city/urban area are connected.

*oh and strangely enough, upon waking, i got the very surreal and distinct feeling that it *was* a "shared reality" which set it apart from my usual dreams which feel more obscure and personal

Does anyone else feel like Mall World closely resembles the Forum Shops at Caeser's Palace in Vegas? Right down to having its own "day and night" but while contained within a building?

OP Here again -

Here are all my posts from a thread I wrote somewhere else 6 years ago. Might be more details in these posts of mine, or something I missed, etc... Sorry if it seems like a wall of text. Let's see if I'm allowed to copy and paste it all in one fell swoop:

I posted this in another thread I just found, and thought I'd start a thread of my own. Looking for people who may have recurring dreams of the same metropolitan area I go to almost every night in my dreams.

For about a year, more or less (I haven't really kept track) I've been seemingly going into the same "dreamworld" in almost every dream that I can remember. What I mean by "the same "dreamworld"" is this: it's the same place everytime. It's a city. Just a city. Not some futuristic or otherworldly city, just a city. A metropolitan area that I seem to be familiar with in the dream. It reminds me (after waking) of an area near Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Sometimes I'm outside trying to find a bus stop, other times I'm walking, trying to find my bearings so I might get to some location in the city. The area I seem to always find myslf near also has a freeway interchange of some sort. Other times it seems somehow apocalyptic. Sometimes I find myself in the basement of a building, trying to find a safe hiding place frome something. The basement is full of old junk and rubble , and there are passageways of some sort in the walls where I try to hide. Sometimes I'm in the same tobacco shop, over and over, wanting to smoke, but not havng any cigarettes (I smoke in waking life). The shop is full of forign cigarettes like DuMaurier's and the like.

Infrequently I can "float" around, but those around me in the dream don't seem to notice I'm trying to show them I can float, or maybe they don't care that I can.

It always seems to be dusk, or twighlight in the city when I'm there. Or not too long after sundown.

And just to clarify. It's not the same dream every night, over and over. It's the same place over and over. And I'm doing different things and am in different locations within this "same place".

No lake or dock or mountains. It's always the same metropolitan area. It reminds me of the campus area of Wayne Stae University in Detroit, but I'm not sure this is the actual area I find myself in. I just took a look on Google Earth of the main branch of the Detroit Public Library (the Cass Street side). It reminds me of the place in the dream. I sometimes find myself walking in a corridor in a building that reminds me of the library, or some campus type building. I walk up a short flight of stairs and exit the building and try to find a bus stop. I wind up walking around though, looking for something. There is a freeway interchange. There is however no freeway interchange in reality in the immediate area of the Detoit Public Library main branch.

I haven't lived in Detroit in 20 years, but when I did it was near Wayne State. I can't say with certainty if the "dreamworld" I find myself in almost every night is this area, but it sure does seem like it. And there are freeway interchanges in the area. The photos below look like it did in my dreams, only at night or dusk.

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I can't remember ever seeing my reflection in these dreams. And the people are normal. I don't interact with them, except to say that when I found I could "float" in a controlled manner, they didn't seem to take any notice of it.

These places in my dreams only remind me of Detroit, in the Wayne State area, where I lived 20 years ago. But it's the going there in practically every dream that strikes me as odd. Always the same time of day, same general area. Always slightly disoriented, and trying to make my way somewhere, but unfamiliar with exactly where I am in the city, what city it is etc...

And when I'm in the dream I'm not lucid. It's only upon awakening that I realize I've gone to "that place" again. And when I'm going to bed I always hope I get to go back there again that night, to explore and try to figure out where I am. Andevery dream I remember is from that place. I don't seem to remember any other dreams. But in the dream I don't remember my waking life, so...

I don't have a memory of past dreams while dreaming. I think the physical sensation in the dream when I'm floating is that of contracing my muscles, mostly my core muscles in the abdomen, while leaning slightly forward and then I just seem to "lift off". I level off just a couple feet from the ground, still in a vertical standing position, and still leaning slightly forward. I begin to float/glide forward while looking at the people around me. This, as I recall takes place outdoors on a sidewalk. The people aound me don't seem to notice or perhaps I just think they don't notice when in actuality they do, but they don't think it's unusual. Either way, they do not respond to my floating.

As for the other dream, the feeling is definatly a feeling of speed and inertia. Not a feeling of space bending around me.

I only recognize that it's the same place when I remember the dream after I wake up. It's like oh... I went to that place again. Damn it, why did I have to wake up! And now that you mention it it does seem like I have to keep my muscles contracted in order to stay aloft. I don't recall flying feet first though.

*I actually do recall flying feet first, now that I've run across this old post of mine*
- OP annotaion

My dream:

I'm in what could be described as a mall. It's ornate though. Marble floors, marble walls. It reminded me of the emerald city from The Wizard of Oz, but not emerald in color. Just the opulence of it. It isn't exactly a mall either, but I can see how it might feel like a mall. It has the same expansive and multi-leveled feeling of being in a mall, but more like a self contained city. There is a winding staircase. On a floor of an area of this enclosed city is a film theater. There are doormen at the doors to the entrance. It's a one screen theatre, not a multi-plex. I peer inside and see the theatre is filled with people that I fancy are watching a summary of my life, and are making some kind of judgement, or scoring me as when a teacher scores an exam. I find my way back down the stairs to an exit. There seem to be no people anywhere in this enclosed city-like place. Only in the theatre. The dream then shifts and I'm outside of the city. I'm standing on the other side of some type of fence that borders the city. It seems to be built up on on a large hill/crest/mountain?. It sems like it might be near a coast. As I stand there, Cmdr. Data from ST:TNG approachs me, or I appraoch him and ask him what this place is, or something to that effect. Then Iwake up, or dream something else. This was something like 20 years ago. So... what the hell?

Holy frijoles! I used to have a recurring dream of being in a house on a stairway/landing trying to gain access to a hidden/inaccessable room, the entrance to which was a secret panel/door on the stairway/landing. I had that dream over and over. Sometimes I could get into the room, but don't remember what was in it. Thanks fo reminding me. Freaky.

I keep running across posts like yours mentioning "malls". There is a mall in this place in my dreams. I've been inside it, outside it. It has more than one floor with crazy stairs and.or escalators. Also... there is some kind of office.cafeteria area in a sub-level with hallways and walk-though areas. I wish I could describe it better.

The basement of the house is rather creepy to me, and not at all homey. Neither is the house. And I don't remember a hallway will many doors off the living-room. But I don't have the best recall when I wake up, and these various buildings seem to all be connected somehow at times, and not connected at other times. Like hallways leading underground from the house, to the mall, to the food storerooms and the offices. The mall is ultra-modern and brightly lit and directly connected somehow to the offices. The food store-rooms are in a sub level. I've found myself on numerous occasions within the food store rooms trying to collect supplies without being found out. Of course there's more going on. It's just rather difficult to describe the connectedness of the house and the mall and the other places I've described. But the city is quite deserted. few people here and there if any at all. Like a scene from the tv miniseries "The Langoliers", by Stephen King. A spooky, damp desertedness. Overcast or at least dimply lit.

Yes. maze-like is a way to describe it. Just recently I was dreaming there and i wound up in a stairwell that had a way in when I went down it. But upon turning around to go back up, after finding the stairwell down led to a bricked in space full of snow, the way back up had disappeared. I was in the mall-like portion of this place when I encountered the stairwell. The mall was even more maze-like than I have previously dreamed.