What are mall dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like malls.
Malls in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 70 dreams.
What are the major highlights of mall dreams?
Malls is a normal dream symbol. Having malls in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
What symbols more present in dreams of malls?
Mall dreams are notable because they have substantially more janitors, shopping, Haiti, exits, parking lots, courts, verbs, Malaysia, employees, food in general, elevators, hairdressers, Bahamas, abandoned places, movement, jewelry, entrances, restaurants and bars, Chile, general movement, wallets, airports, police, bus stops, food, clowns, Cuba, shirts, terrorists, underground, makeup, Barack Obama, characters, crowds, casinos, lobbies, weasels, Japan, other verbs, mazes, broken glass, money, distant people, candy, boredom, cities, prom, unnamed groups of people, talismans, dismissals, Lebanon, disguises, ignoring, machine guns, abandonment, walking, pressing buttons, roofs, toys, and mafia than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of malls?
Mall dreams are notable because they have substantially less telepathy, beds, lions, seeing a dead relative, crows, bedrooms, cancer, snakes, the morning, intruders, sleep paralysis, magic, the night, recurring nightmares, insights, birds, owls, nightmares, old houses, genitals, injecting, witches, my children, places, human places, stores, seeing a dead father, pets, wolves, seeing a dead pet, psychologists, wasps, gems, three eyes, teeth falling out, scorpions, ravens, precognitive dreams, possessing, panthers, laundry rooms, Ireland, hawks, black eyes, evil, opened my eyes, surgery, sleeping, brains, and clergy than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of malls affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in malls dreams?
Overall, dreams with malls are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of malls are more related to different roles, more related to distant people, and more related to close people than dreams in general. They are less related to animals and less related to fantastic beings.
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Who is in malls dreams?
Overall, dreams with malls are much more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of malls are much more related to human places and more related to transportation than dreams in general. They are less related to home and less related to natural places.
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What happens in malls dreams?
Overall, dreams with malls are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of malls are less related to aggressive interactions, less related to friendly interactions, and less related to disasters.
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How do malls in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with malls are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of malls are more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares, less related to recurring nightmares, and less related to sleep paralysis.
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How can you make sense of malls in dreams?
Mall dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things mall dreams are normally interconnect.
Do you think this is true for your dream of malls? How might your dream of malls be different?
All dreams have meaning
You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.
Look for the differences
The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience malls in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.
Return to the feelings
Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about malls in dreams. See how you feel about malls now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of malls?
What do you do at a mall? You shop, usually. Shopping is about making choices. Many choices are available at a mall. So what is comparable to shopping? The most obvious connection is with making choices.
Take the example of looking for a job. When a type of job offers several employers to choose from, it’s comparable to stores in a mall. When you find the right one, you make a decision that’s comparable to buying something. Buying something is an investment, and a job is an investment of your time and energy. When you spend your money at a store in the mall you get something in return, and with a job what you get in return is income, benefits, prestige, authority, challenge, security, personal fulfillment, and so on.
In life we make choices about the sorts of people we want to be, the crowd we run with, and the image we project, and these situations are all comparable to shopping at a mall.
The analogy can be used to describe looking for a romantic relationship. You are said to “shop around” when considering choices about whom to date or marry. A mall is comparable to a dating site. You browse through the offerings and decide on whom you want to contact. At the mall you browse through stores before deciding which to visit and what to buy. It’s comparable to thinking about the people you know and wonder who would make a good partner. You’re looking at your options and deciding where to invest yourself.
Malls are associated with materialism, keeping up on the latest trends and obtaining “must have” items. It’s the object of many jokes about material culture.
Many personal associations come into play, so always consider the first words and phrases that come to mind in connection with a mall.
See also: Grocery stores, Menus, Shopping
This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet.
Examples of dreams of malls
Read some real dream reports of mall dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.
Craziest, most profound dream I ever had
Apologies for the longer post, but so much happened in this dream that I wanted to include. I had an insanely lucid dream. It came on suddenly, while having a normal nonsense dream about protesters in a mall. I noticed an unlit storefront, tucked away in a dark corner of the food court. Right as I passed through the doorway, lucidity slapped me in the face. I was quite aware what I was experiencing was a dream, and that I absolutely remember this one.
I found myself in a wooden room. Each wall and the ceiling were covered in wood paneling, polished and shining. The floor was a thin carpet, but the room was cozy and warm. A beautiful woman came around from behind me. When she smiled, I saw one of her teeth wasn't a tooth at all, but a little bead in the shape of an alien's head, and her eyes were sparkling.
She laughed out loud, but we talked with our thoughts. I don't remember exactly what about, but I would say something and she would respond. The woman said, "let me show you something", and opened a carved wooden door that was one of the walls. It revealed another door, and another, and another, and behind all those doors were small compartments full of wooden boxes and boards, all of different sizes. They were empty, but quite beautifully carved. I thought these had something to do with OCD. I turned and asked, "do I have to sort these out before I can move on?" She nodded.
This strange lady could see through any wall I put up. I remember saying "I'm not a very nice person, am I?" And she mocked my pouting, "oh poor poor you!" A bit of a bruised ego but I understood and laughed with her, "alright, alright. I guess I need to work on it." She said "You have a lot of...bravado...but this is only your first eye." (Whatever that means?)
I looked at her and had to ask.
"Are you my creator?" I don't have a particular religion, or even non-religion, don't claim to know how anything works.
"Yes." She grinned again.
"Are you really?"
"No. You have a projected image of her."
"Oh."
Then she laid down on her side and said "Now I want you to come and sit right here." And she patted her lap. Super not comfortable with close affection and this was super weird to me. I did not want to.
I asked if she was sure, for some reason I felt wary of getting closer to her.
She said, "Yep, just come and sit."
"Okay, if you say so..." It was still too weird.
As soon as I sat she grabbed me. I don't know if she was hugging me or just wrapping her arms around me. I normally hate hugs but holy hell did I literally see stars. This hug could make a hell's angel weep, it was the best freaking hug ever. She said, "Now, rest. Rest." And then, in a sing-song voice, "into the bedroom of science fiction."
It must have been my own fears manifesting because I saw the face of a monstrous demon in the stars and instinctively pulled away and pushed at her. She just laughed it off but I could feel myself getting sucked out of there. When I woke up, my eyes just snapped open. It was like I had just returned to my body. I could only sit up and place my hand on my forehead, like "what the hell was that?!"
Has anyone here had such a lucid experience like mine?
Apologies for the longer post, but so much happened in this dream that I wanted to include. I had an insanely lucid dream. It came on suddenly, while having a...
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dreamed that the sun was really bright in my eyes, it was all I could see
the sun was really bright in my eyes, like a bright light
okay so i had this dream, I was walking through a mall or something, I got given the letter 'e' to find where i should go (my first name starts with e) letters were everywhere on the shops. everyone was trying to find their place to go, I found mine eventually but I felt too anxious to go in. so I just walked away, and then I noticed someone from the shop was following me, and then it was like the sun suddenly came really really bright in my eyes i couldn't see anything else, I tried covering my eyes in my dream but that didn't work. it felt like it lasted for a minute, it was like a bright light, a really bright sun. then I woke up, and my head was pounding when I first woke up for 5 seconds. there was no sun to come in while I was sleeping by the way. what do you think this could mean? I couldn't help but think that I almost could of died or some shit
my head feels dizzy, and I feel like I'm not all here after having that dream, pls help and give me an explanation of what this could mean
the sun was really bright in my eyes, like a bright light
okay so i had this dream, I was walking through a mall or something, I got given the letter 'e' to...
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Toby Flenderson grabbed my ass.
i had a dream that i was riding up an escalator at a mall with my boyfriend and Toby from The Office. we were all laughing at a joke when all of a sudden, toby grabbed my right ass cheek and squeezed it twice — i immediately turned around and said "toby what the fuck? you literally work for HR, why would you do that?"
and i woke up. like... what.
i had a dream that i was riding up an escalator at a mall with my boyfriend and Toby from The Office. we were all laughing at a joke when all of a sudden, toby...
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Wierd dream anyone can explain?
I had a crush on a girl.i thought I was over it.last night dream was something weird.i am m(14).dream starts here: I was driving a motor cycle and spot my friend in the mall.i get out of it to tell him hi and see my crush walking with a common friend that is a girl.then I go to tell them hi and the shift changes to a broom like my living room .A movie is playing on the tv and she tells me that she is cold.i get her a blanket and she rests and gets in a comfy position. I sit next to her and her head is on my lap.we starter talking then I wake up.
I had a crush on a girl.i thought I was over it.last night dream was something weird.i am m(14).dream starts here: I was driving a motor cycle and spot my...
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I Need Help Understanding What I Dreamt, Please.
~5 hours of sleep
A friend of my ex (who looks nothing like my ex) was dressed up as her and we talked about our breakup that was roughly 4 months ago, asking me how I felt about it. Told her that I was hurt and I wouldn’t think it would be a good idea to date again, she differed. We were in my room when I noticed she looked different— skinnier (made me feel that her beer belly was gone), sounded different, etc. She wore black leggings and I don’t recall the color of her shirt. Next thing I know, I’m walking through a “corridor” with lots of doors in the path, alone (had to open doors to keep going through the “corridor” of rooms [old antique beds and furniture were in the rooms]). Next thing I know, we are at a mall (i feel that my little brother was there with us or not but I feel that he was). I started to think about my “ex” and then it hit that she wasn’t my ex. I said “you’re not *ex’s name*, your *ex’s friend’s name*.” She froze for a quick second then ran (I feel that she said “Sorry” while running but don’t know for sure). Never saw my real ex throughout the dream. Woke up feeling upset and confused(?).
~5 hours of sleep
A friend of my ex (who looks nothing like my ex) was dressed up as her and we talked about our breakup that was roughly 4 months...
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