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welcome to my mallworld!

this is a (WIP) compilation of my recollections and things ive seen that resonated with me about my experiences dreaming in mallworld. if you've never heard of mallworld before, it's essentially a theory about a giant mall that MANY people have talked about being to or experiencing somehow in their dreams. its pretty specific and uncanny and really fascinating to me, especially because i go here pretty often! theres a lot of theories about it, ranging from the fact malls are just so common that people tend to mash up every mall theyve been to in their subconscious, to its an outright different dimension that people experience, like the mmo of dreams. i fall closer to believing in the latter. ive also written a little bit on my blog/dreamjournal page if you're interested! some of these pictures may be ai, sorry. i stole them off reddit if they looked like how i personally remember, i didnt generate any of them. dont kill me.

i do suspect that my mallworld experiences are tied to my GATE experiences. that page is also very wip and unfinished, but worth checking out if you've been to mallworld.

if any of this is familiar to you, PLEASE feel free to message me, i love talking about mallworld!! or if you want to know more, i've left some links in the sidebar to the left :)

the theater

i saw a concert here with my friends, just completely unrelated bands that i like. i had to leave at some point and was panicking about trying to find my friends again. also i think my socks were wet for some reason?

lower level

this is the downstairs area, except i dont remember it having as many subfloors to it, it was mostly just a flat layer of hallways. i had a dream that i had like a high school reunion/field trip(?) here. i spawned somewhere else with my high school class, but it was distinctly not that i was still in high school, just that we were all together again. we took school busses to the mall and i sat next to one of my best friends. some of my current friends met up with me because i was anxious being around so many people i hadn't seen in so long, and some of them i had pretty rough pasts with. i remember it feeling a bit like being at a convention wandering around, and at some point we were all sitting on EXACTLY that middle section square thing. i constantly kept seeing my ex situationship everywhere i went but always in passing. across the room or walking past each other in the hallways type beat. i kind of wanted to say hi to him but it always felt like i just really couldn't, or wasn't supposed to, but we made eye contact several times and it felt really weird and offputting.

thrift store

ive been here once but i dont remember it. i remember it being a thrift store specifically, but really big and almost like a warehouse type? all i remember is getting lost, and there was some other hallways and rooms in the back but i didnt want to go in there because i knew it wasnt the way out and i didnt want to get more lost.

freeways

this is kind of what it looks like to drive into the main entrance. kind of. theres no good recreations of it and everyone thats tried (from what i seen) just has ai slop. it reminds me of that dr suess page though. theres just a lot of curving overpasses, and once you get up to the main entrance, it starts to remind me of like an airport departure/arrivals area, where theres several lanes and you kind of have to get out in the street and theres people passing you, except theres also like a metro that has tracks there too and you have to not get hit by the train too.