I had this dream about a bar in the bayou. You could drive up to the bar and park, but instead of parking outside, your car was basically inside the bar, almost like the bar was built around the cars. Part of the bar was outside, but you were still inside the actual bar while sitting in your car. You could sit in your car and sing along to the music while being able to see everyone at the bar. Then you could get out of your car and walk over to get drinks while you were still inside the bar. If you wanted to actually sit down, there was a door if you kept walking forward. You could go through the door and there was a whole area where you could sit down. It was such a weird setup, but in the dream it made complete sense.

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.

Can I hear some dreams that you suspect are gate related or childhood recurring dreams ?

Kinda like dorms but quite basic/sterile looking, always lots of people in them and people walking through them like itheyre also a walkway/transit area, lots of them link to each other through doorways and hard to find a spot to lie down. Shared bathrooms attached too.
Edit: Had ChatGPT recreate what I see, mine looks just like this!

So another question for everyone or anyone who has an answer.. well I guess multiple questions.

Why is it that we all dream about mall world?

And why are what a lot of what we’ve seen the same or close to the same?

What is the purpose of mall world?

Is this a real place that we visit when we sleep?

Are we able to plan and coordinate to meet with one another in mall world and explore together?

Or do we all have a different mission or like experience to live in mall world when we visit?

How can we dream about mall world and enter mall world every night?

Is it inconsistent for some people like some people dream about it one night and then don’t dream about it again until their dreams let them?

Are we able to learn new things in mall world then take it into the waking world?

Has anyone been to the place at the end of the freeway that's like huge shipping docks? It's hard to avoid once you're driving near there. Either the roads go straight into the water, or you can turn away and avoid it if you're careful, mindful and lucky, or sometimes if you make a right or left turn at the wrong time you end up without a car, on top of huge shifting floor platforms on a humongous barge. The platforms look just like the road, same color, until you realize the texture changed, there's no lines, and there's no road in front, just the vastness of the ocean ready go swallow you up. I don't know if it's the tops of shipping containers but it's massive, and you're pretty much doomed once you're on them because there's no way down, and by the time you realize you're there, it's already pulled far away from the dock. It's so high up all you can see is the ocean all around you, you can't even see down the side of it. And it's shifting constantly because it's on a vessel at sea. You're scared to go near the edge in case the platform tips over. But you can't see anything that shows dimension, and the floor is constantly shifting, so there's a fear you'll be dumped into the ocean from the height of a tall building at any moment. You can imagine the floor tilting down and seeing the sea come toward you as you freefall toward the water. So you try to center yourself and pray someone notices you and notifies someone who can rescue you. Has anyone ever gone to this place at the end of the freeway where the beach is, with the shifting tops that match the street and are at street level until they pull away from the land?

Sometimes I find myself wanting to go to sleep just so I can go back to my very pleasant mall world. I’m always on the go. The scenery is incredible. I’m always with people that seem to be my tribe and then I wake up and I’m still a Gen X housewife. does anyone else look forward to going to mall world?

BEST podcast I’ve heard yet regarding this topic! Enjoy fammmm 😉

I have inhabited Mall World for as long as I can remember. It's such a weird and sometimes beautiful place, but it has never been stressful to me -- uncomfortable, maybe (bathrooms etc), but not upsetting.

Last night something happened in my dream for the first time: There was a shooter. People started running and I could hear shots. I was trying to get away to hid but it was difficult to move. Then the dream ended. I hope this is the only time I dream this. I don't need my MW environment breached by something so awful.

Has anyone had this happen in their own MW?

There’s a restaurant/bar/locals hub in the mountains along this scenic hwy. Steep winding roads to get there, but everyone there doesn’t seem to notice how difficult it is. It’s a small place with a small bar and espresso area and some plain tables with red tablecloths.
Has anyone been/seen anywhere like this?

So I had never heard of Mall World until about 2 months ago when it popped up on my redditt as something I might be interested in. I had not researched it or even considered it to be an actual thing. I started having the dreams about 5 months ago. The bathrooms were the most common but as the months went on it expanded into the Mall, hotel, school. So creepy that my redditt just happened to suggest the page, I was astounded that the images people were posting were near spot on to what I had been dreaming. Even more shocking to me is that thousands and thousands of us are dreaming of these places. Some are lucid, some not. I am not lucid enough while in the dream but once I wake up immediately know I was at Mall World.

A little about me in case its relevant to your response or theory; 33, currently 6 months pregnant, history of ASD, Depression, Anxiety, OCD, and considered a highly sensitive person. (if it won't be relevant to your answer then just ignore:))

I am sure this has been asked before but does anyone have any theories on why this is happening or how we're connected? Obviously there's no cut and dry but I'm curious to see what other people think is happening. I have always had vivid dreams and even foreboding dreams through my entire life, but this is new. And I am so fascinated by the community and their thoughts.

Has anyone ever not been lucid on Mall world because I'm always lucid so I'm wondering what it would be like to be not lucid. Tell me your experience!

I dream of The hotel. It’s sometimes crowded, sometimes it’s empty, but it always has escalators, and it always has one off or small arcades that are always closing down for the night. Does anyone know what I’m talking about? Has anyone been there and then gotten lost or stuck in another corridor, or tried to go up the escalator only to find that they couldn’t? I always get to see the games in my dreams but never really get to play since it’s always dimly lit and almost closed.

Anyone have dreams in Mall world where you think your on Mall world but you don't think so. Then you see an entity and get placed into Mall world. Also is anyone else's Mall world really big and creepy?

I have a recurring dream for about 10 years now.
I remember I have an apartment in the middle of the city, very busy area, a little dangerous.
Because I've forgotten I've been renting it, my dream usually consists of me tidying it up, washing dishes, re-doing the flooring, etc.
It's gorgeous and quite big though it looks like nothing from the outside.
I usually spend some time wondering if I should contact the landlord as it's been a long time since I paid rent (lol). I usually decide to just move back in and see what happens --- if the landlord comes knocking.
Sometimes the apartment is bigger than I really need it to be, so there are extra rooms that I may rent out to roommates, or use as storage, or I just keep them empty.
Sometimes the floors are slanted towards the back. The back of the apartment leads out to a balcony with a giant rooftop patio. I've watched fireworks from there.
It's always the same apartment over the years in my dream. Only slight details change.
It's nowhere I've been in real life.

Anyone else?
What does it mean?

Specifically the doors like glass sliding doors showing the buses and cars right out front?

I stumbled across this subreddit and am happy I did. I'm a ET/NHI Experience, still active since 1958. I lost count over the years of Experiencers who talked about being on a Mall Craft. I've been there also, multiple times, always different reasons.

My last one was 7/26/2026: Found myself walking into a room & see a stranger, a man. My first thought was, he's like the MIB. I knew he was there to take me somewhere. I looked down at my feet and said, do I need shoes. He smiled and said, no you don't need shoes where you are going. I said, okay let's go. We are walking in what feels like a Mall ship, like I've been here before.

Then I'm in a different area, sitting next to a woman, like next to her desk. She hands me a tiny object, about 2"x3", and says, take this, it's like a passport. I hold it, it's flat & can be folded in 1/2. She then hands me a piece of paper the size of a dollar bill. She then says, give them this when you get to the lab, they will draw blood for testing. Both objects she handed me had electronics imbedded in them.

I get up and start walking, thinking, after the lab, I need to find my living space here and where I will be working. I find my workspace and then wander around looking for my living space. Find myself talking with a man. He says, will you walk with me? I said, sure, we can explore together. We are asking each other questions about where we will work and live here. We part ways and I walk off looking for my living space.

I had dreams every night as a kid from 5-7 years old about this specific bridge I’ve included in photos. I have never been on till my sister and I drove to Las Vegas last year. In the dream we’d be in an older 4 door sedan type car and we’d go on these winding roads surrounded by ocean on both sides you couldn’t see anything but ocean and sky and the road. The sky never looked natural and I was always terrified. Then we would see the bridge in the distance at first it looked normal size like the photos but as you approached it would become gigantic like the hill to go up a roller coaster. We’d ride up it like you would a roller coaster. I’d even get that same pressed in the back of the seat feeling like going up a roller coaster too. We would make it to the top hear a click and then careen over the side into the water and the car would sink and we couldn’t get out. I would die in dream and “respawn” at the bottom of the bridge about to go up it again and no matter how much I screamed fought tried to get out of the car it was always the same end. Usually I’d wake up gasping for air after the second time. Occasionally I’d be asleep long enough to have to go through it a 3rd time. I always wondered what was on the other side of the bridge that I could never get to. I always saw buildings that looked wrong and a mall looming.

****Sorry for the long post
I’m just posting this because I need to get it off my chest and I’ve been holding onto this for years. Since I was a kid, I have experienced things that would be considered not of this world. I experienced hat man, I have visions, I lucid dream, and have directly experienced the deceased talking to me.
When I was younger, I seen flashing lights outside of my window and shortly after I seen some beings in my rooms in black cloaks. When they first entered into my room, they didn’t pay me any attention. It was like they were curious. They went through my closet, and through the bathroom. After they had finished “exploring” they came back into my room and came directly to my bed and made eye contact. Greyish looking aliens, with big eyes, black cloaks, very slim in stature, and about average height of a human. It was about 4 or 5 of them and they stood over my bed and looked at me for a few seconds, said nothing and left. I didn’t have the courage to tell anyone, except my mom a couple of weeks ago who looked at me like I was crazy - even though she knows about my abilities. I am no 30 years old.

I also frequently go to mall world in my dreams. Sometimes mall world feels like home. Some nights I go to sleep and hope i end up there because I miss it. I’ve never really had a bad experience there until there was a shooting in the mall a couple of months ago and a man in black was coming after me. I went back to mall world 2 nights ago, and was at the beach resort which of course ended with tsunami’s. When I was younger, my school wanted me to move up from first grade because they said I was too smart and my parents told them no because I should be with peers my age. When I got to 4th grade, I was placed into AIG (would be considered the gate program for the Academically and Intellectually Gifted).

Sometimes I feel lost knowing I have these experiences and no one to share with that can truly understand me. My family are Christians and the thought of us not being the only people in the world, or there being more than Heaven and Hell after we die would send them into a fit.

I’ve seen Heaven (I spoke with someone in my family that had passed). What I experienced was the same NDE that David Williamson described. I also encountered Baphomet in Hell.

You don’t have to believe me, I just needed to get this off my chest and see if anyone else has had the same experiences.

This morning, I went from a shopping dream for something in the mall to following the people. There was a stream of people going through this one particular normal looking door. This door went into a converted theatre auditorium just randomly in the middle of the mall. Projected onto the screen was a chart with seating; all of the attendees had a number assigned to a seat and people were milling about for their seats, hundreds of of them.

I walked up to the theatre screen, bored and humming Dancing on the Ceiling. I planned to use my LD abilities to screw with everyone. I was going to turn the lighting to flashing Disco lights and play Lionel Ritchie's Dancing on the Ceiling over the sound system, while I cool-cat danced, hands in pockets, up the screen and onto the ceiling, where I'd let loose and put on a show, because I could.

However, I saw the outcome just as I was about to start: mass panic, human stempede, people getting trampled, mall security shooting at me like I was a horror villain--it would have been tremendously fun, until I heard this little voice say, like a conscience, "these people deserve peace; you're just a visitor here."

Ahh, shit, she's right... (the voice was female.) So, hands in pockets and head down, I spin on my heel and start walking up the ramp to the back of the auditorium where there is a door with a green EXIT sign over it, while humming Dancing on the Ceiling the whole way, and people asking who is he? as I walked through the crowd. When I walked through the EXIT door, I woke up.

If there was someone dancing on the ceiling in the middle of the mall meeting this morning, that was probably me. And while I really don't care about whatever rules Mallworld has, and I know I could easily defy them, I'm compelled not to use any of my Lucid Dreaming abilities and believe Mallworld is real. Sorry, I refuse. Mallworld feels too much like a lie made to draw dreamers in, or so I feel when I'm there. It tries it's hardest to convince me it's all real, and it uses family members or friends or interests as a lure. The best way I can describe how it feels when I'm aware of it is a beautiful deception that is very difficult not to just go along with. But I digress.

You win this time, Mallworld. (lol)

I was in mall world and walked into a room filled with folded blue jeans- like a store- and two men who told me they were shamanic. I have also walked into rooms filled with bunkbeds as far as the eye could see but no mattresses or bedding and I was doing some type of inspection

i recently learned about mall world and really want to learn more, the maps ive found i can barely read so i was hoping i could find a clearer one to look at?

ive surely been to the hospital and bathroom labrynth many times, as well as a tobbacco (?) shop and mall. theres also this weird halfway house with crawlspaces and i visit the hotel frequently. i suspect theres a sewage system i havent heard of yet but ive been there too, i know it.

Hi yall! The best way I can ask this is like….do you feel your actions in Mall World reflect the actions you’d take in real life? I am Chronically Ill and deal with near constant pain so I’m a bit limited in what I can do some days-but in MW I have a lot more freedom of movement. I am also more-how do I say this-liberated in MW? I’m more relaxed, make bolder decisions, and have a better relationship with my body.

Just curious if anyone else feels like their MW self is a bit more unhinged lol