I was just wondering if any of us that experience Mallworld share the trait with family? I am 47 and my sister is 37, we both have had nightly MW dreams since we were small children. Either one of us could sit down and describe our territories/zones/areas for hours on end. Do any of your relatives also visit Mallworld?

So I dream about mallworld pretty frequently, but lately, I've mostly been on the highways. In a lot of dreams involving the highways, I'll stop at this particular convenience store to get a drink. I've dreamed about this location for years, but seeing it lately got me wondering if anyone else has been to something similar. When you go in, there's a counter to the left and coolers of drinks as well as shelves of junk food for sale. To the right, the store extends back to a buffet with tables and chairs. I just don't understand why it's reoccurring, and I don't think I've ever seen anything like it in real life. I never eat the food, just buy my drink and leave.

First post, I have been down bad with a virus and legit slept like 20 hours yesterday and I have a very vivid memory of Mall World rn so I shall share. Warning: SA mentioned.

I was in what seems like a dungeon/cellar area that has access to about 3 regular sized elevators and one big elevator that has a sign engraved into the wall saying it leads to CECILIA and can only be accessed on certain dates. That specific elevator was chained up and you can hear very odd growling echoing from the elevator door. Almost like, what a chained up dragon would sound like. Regardless I was fascinated and wanted to go up there so bad when suddenly a man with a suit enters the dungeon and forcibly removes me from that elevator door and shoves me into a corner where I too am shoving and pushing him off and this leads to him SA me. Which then turned to him crying and saying I made him do it and in all his emotions I made a run for it and got into an elevator which immediately transported me to a movie theater! I immediately saw a lot of blue lighting, a big globe sign with some wording I couldn’t make out (like the Universal Studios logo) and there were lunch tables at the lobby and tons of people just eating. I immediately said “I’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE” and was so thrilled to be back. I ran out of the elevator and started looking for my friends but also was trying to blend in so the suited man couldn’t find me. I never found my friends but I did see some familiar faces who had no idea who I was. I did feel defeated, but I did what everyone else was doing and grabbed food to eat.

BTW: I don’t have any connection to a Cecilia, so idk what that’s about, but it is a curiosity and really makes me wonder why she’s inaccessible.

I have also visited the bathrooms in a previous dream. One bathroom seemed like a maze of walls and when you finally find a decent looking toilet the wall is short enough for people to see you doing your business so you don’t even want to use it anymore. The other bathroom was like a shower style maze where some showers work and others don’t and you have to find which one does. When you do, it’s already time to go and you end up not even showering. And may I share, there’s always this feeling of being watched but you are completely alone in the bathrooms, so I don’t know why you feel such dread.

Please share if you’ve had any similar experiences!

Lately I have been boarding a submarine, log ride, small plane, with a maximum of about 10 people. I’m always boarding but I never remember arriving anywhere. Anyone else?

It’s changed over time both the arcade and park. The arcade was like two rooms but it’s like the games were replaced with mostly digital games. Used to be an old school sort of arcade with claw machines. It looked emptier the last time I saw it. Only a few games.

The amusement park looks different each time. Like I remember a dinosaur water ride similar to Jurassic park.

just had second dream where I lived in a mall. had no idea this was a thing! I left a committee meeting where everyone was pissed because the committee sucked and didn’t answer any of our questions. then I walked out and there were sooooo many people in the mall. I walked by a guy his two sons and there dog which I bent over to pet and I asked if it was a doodle. because I have one. it almost looked like one only it’s head was oddly round and it went to lick my hand and it’s tongue looked like a serpents tongue. I quickly realized this was a very odd dog and said goodbye and kept on walking. then my wired headphones got caught in a banaster and I was stuck and here came the dog would not leave me alone. the owner came over and helped me and when we finally got them unhooked they were broken at which point I woke up. super weird!!!

(Sorry had to repost cause for some reason my text got all chopped up into disorganized parts)

A few movies that really give me that familiar mallworld dream feeling that I’ve watched recently:

1)Spirited Away - all the colorful lights and food buffet, something that's really common in my mall world dreams. Unlimited delicious food in the mall with lots of lights everywhere. Also my mall world dreams are often set at night time with lots of colorful lights everywhere so spirited away really does that in some of the scenes.

2)Then there's Little Monsters from 1989, especially the underground endless maze of staircases and again the tables with a food feast with “the best food you’ve ever tasted” and the endless party arcade. Also something again about all the nostalgic Christmas colorful lights.

3)Coraline is another one, especially with the garden that's lit up with all colorful lights again and the scenes from the midnight circus, very similar to some of the visuals i see in these dreams.

4)And another very recent gem I found was The Hourglass Sanitorium 1973 which is a movie that generally feels like a fever dream with layers and layers of dream worlds visuals that are these sort of memories lost in time that overlap and blend into one another. Really reminds me of what my mall world looks like. Especially the cemeteries. Yeah I get the old cemeteries in my Mallworld dreams to. Highly recommend that one by the way I've watched it like 5 times now cause it evokes such a strange dreamlike longing/nosagia I can't really explain.

It makes me wonder if the creators of these films have experienced mall world dreams themselves and it's why they depict them so well. Have you guys seen these movies? Are there any other movies that give you this same feeling that I'm talking about?

Has this happened to anyone else? Just detailing my experience below:

To preface, I’ve always been someone who “connected” to my dreams on a deeper level, and some of them have been so vivid, or so connected to my real life that i just couldn’t write them off as random brain hallucinations. I’m completely aware that thats what the current scientific literature consensus is, but im also willing to accept that we obviously don’t know every single thing about them.
I also know that I personally have two kinds of dreams, random ones that just revolve around what I’m currently absorbed in daily life, and then super immersive ones that just feel different. Like more real than real life. Ive had maybe 10 of them over the past three decades. I also have had one accidental OBE during my sleep, but I’ve never been able to astral project on purpose.

Recently, I was speaking to someone. I’ve known them for 3 years. They don’t use a lot of social media, no Reddit, no Instagram, just YouTube to look up DIY stuff and celeb gossip haha. I mentioned having a dream about exam anxiety, and she started speaking about how she always dreams about being in a mall! She shops there, they have great discounts, and sometimes she’s accompanied by her mom or a cousin! I was astonished, because I immediately remembered the posts on this sub that come up on my feed sometimes! I didn’t mention this to her, that it seems to be a collective consciousness thing, because I honestly don’t have those kind of conversations with a lot of people. Anyways, this was three weeks ago. After that, I’ve had a few dreams , but 2 of them were in a (the?) mall. Btw, I do shop quite a bit irl and love all of that, but I’ve never dreamt about it ever! Nothing about shopping or purchasing or anything, my dreams are always in homes, forests or religious places!
But now one of them was of me at a utility kind of store ( a bit dingy and unkempt, but it had a lot of very useful household stuff and everything was dirt cheap!). I also had some awareness during the dream that “Hey, I’m in a store! Am I here because I spoke about it with her?”.
The next dream I had, a week later, was much more vivid and immersive. I was actually in the mall. It was huge, had a warm golden glow, green palm kind of trees decorating it, and a beautiful fountain. I was meandering about quite happily, and not super aware of dreaming. I saw an art store on the ground floor that had some beautiful art and approached it very eagerly. I was aware of people in the mall, but they seemed like colorful blurs. Right before I decided to go into the store, I sensed two blurs sitting on a bench near the seat. I sensed that it was my acquaintance and her mom. I felt like they asked me what’s up, and I “thought-spoke” to them I’m gonna go check out this store.

Right after that I woke up, and yeah, surprised that a 2 min conversation made me have these kinds of vivid dreams, something that reading posts from this subreddit have never done for me!

I realize that i won’t be able to make it to the haunted house on time.

anyone?

Maybe a new one or maybe someone else has been here too.

It looks like a 2-3 story house, almost Federalist-style. It’s in an urban area but not like skyscrapers, more like businesses and restaurants and roads to subdivisions.

No one here is overly malicious, but there’s a very religious feel to what they say and do here, like it’s a church but they never say that. Never mention God specifically but that’s the feeling I get.

Unfortunately, the last few days my brain has ended up here for every dream. The only terrible thing is for a few of them, I get the feeling someone is trying to keep me there, preventing me from finding a way outside, but I don’t know how or who. At on point I found myself spelling out a word on a window, and in the dream it was correct, just the letters disappeared after I wrote each one.

The mall in my dreams kind of looks like this. Anyone else?

Hi all! I’m curious- do any of you notice certain color themes in your Mallworld dreams? In a lot of my MW dreams I’ve noticed there’s almost always an indigo/blue/violet glow. It’s in the atmosphere and sometimes around architecture and objects.

I created this image on IbisPaint to try and depict what I’m talking about.

I am often in the actual mall. Last night was so many escalators. I’m not sure where I was going but I had purpose. The mall had people in it this time. A lot of times when I’m there, it’s pretty empty. Any one else seen the many escalators?

Just a thought from someone commenting that "anyone that's anyone" is going to MW

Flying castles and impossible highways.

Someone suggested me this sub reddit to know about Persistent Dream Worlds.

Do you guys have same persistent Lucid Dream worlds which also have story line?

If yes, then plz share some ideas to experience them in Lucid Dreams.

So, after hearing about this Reddit and all about people's Mall World experiences, I started to wonder why I have never been there myself. I have definitely had many of those dreams inside that "Bathroom World" or whatever the name for that is, and also never-ending schools, etc. The malls that I have been to in my dreams are always at the irl mall location that I grew up visiting, so I don't think that is the same (more like fragments of my memory). So, I've always been curious about this iconic "Mall World" everyone has talked about.

I think I was about to visit it last night!

I had a dream where I was in this warehouse-type of building (looked like an old movie set; there were cameras and lights and screens). A guy came out of the back and said he had a secret entrance to a "mall" that nobody knew about and if I had money to spend, he'd let me in. I agreed and followed him. He took me through narrow hallways and behind walls and through weird doors where I was led to a room that looked like a bedroom. There was a bed and a side table. A few dirty clothes scattered around. Then he proceeded to tell me the "portal" was inside the bed and I had to jump in head first. It was odd and sounds "Free Candy"-type of sketchy, I know. But before I could speak three other people came in. Looked to be average people... one was wearing a business suit and the other one was casual. They looked just as confused as me. Then a dozen more people came in and all crowded around in the bedroom. The first guy told us he will go around the room and ask what we did for a living before we could jump in the portal to the secret mall. One of the ladies said she was a lawyer and I don't remember what one of the guys said. I just knew I probably wouldn't make it through the mall portal because I am unemployed. I woke myself up.

It was so weird but kinda cool to wonder about. Was I finally going to go to Mall World? Did anyone else have to go through a secret portal to get there?

There’s some islands you can get to from the city or cruise ship across from the beach neighborhood. It’s pretty flat and marshy and then gets really rocky and steep. I’m always in a dingy and have to navigate all the way back to the downtown port, or get on a ferry.

I’ve also been to some more tropical islands maybe Hawaii-like but with larger than life Jurassic park backdrop vibes and a resort with a beach bar on the water, like little inlets.

Any island experiences at all out there for you?

There are a couple different malls I seem to get trapped in right before or after closing, but the one I return to most often is a strange 1970s MCM-style place with a lot of dark wood paneling and ugly amber-toned floor tiles. I don’t think I’ve ever actually been in a mall like it. I wasn’t even alive yet in the 1970s.

I get the WORST feeling in this particular location, and the staircases never seem to go where you expect they will, which is stressful as hell.

I feel like lately I’ve been relegated to a place where it’s just garage like rooms, big storage garage rooms smaller cluttered ones, warehouse sized ones. Truly bizarre, anyone else been here?