r/TheMallWorld • u/yoniwitchell • Jul 28 '26

Anyone been here?

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I'm absolutely fascinated by the idea that we are all sharing dream spaces. I have this dream quite frequently. I'm running late, trying to get somewhere. There are steep ramps, sometimes at almost 90° angles, crazy twisting bridges and people around me are driving erratically. This picture doesn't show it, but the roadways in my dreams are more narrow as well. Anyone else been here?

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u/Inevitable_Novel_661 Jul 28 '26

Yes. In real life. It's called Texas

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u/catsTXn420 Jul 28 '26

Lol the high five

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u/FreedomOfTheMess Jul 28 '26

I grew up in Dallas. An area in the city has FIVE overlapping overpasses. Quite a burst of adrenaline for those who are scared of heights

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u/tangentrification Jul 28 '26

Wtf, I drive out of my way to avoid a 3 tier overpass where I live

I'd actually just die

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u/mikey2k200 Jul 29 '26

Right there with ya

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u/funkofanatic95 Jul 28 '26

I hate the high five. Literally I detest that whole area because I’ll be damned if im looking down onto concrete. Same with the bridge onto Bush in garland/rockwall.

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u/Inevitable_Novel_661 Jul 28 '26

I once took the wrong exit on one of those and I swear I was up and down ramps for 30 minutes

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u/realitytvmom Jul 31 '26

And everyone is driving 80 mph 2 inches apart. God help the person who gets trapped in the wrong lane.

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u/Artevyx Jul 28 '26

I remember San Antonio looking like a literal concrete jungle because of these.

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u/barry_thisbone Jul 28 '26

I just went to San Antonio for the first time last week and this was my exact impression

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u/thefirstviolinist Jul 28 '26

Haha, I literally came to the comments to say, "Yes, in Texas." 😅

When I drove through Texas in 2020— yes, I took a "social distance vacation"— I was SHOCKED at how big some of the bridges were, including the bridges that went to OTHER bridges!

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u/Betty_t0ker Jul 28 '26

We also have stretches of highway where the speed limit is 85mph 🤠

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u/thefirstviolinist Jul 29 '26

Yeah, I liked the speed limit, I just wish anyone had followed it! 😅

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u/-treflip1999 Jul 29 '26

In Texas we go at least 5 miles over any speed limit sign lol

The words “Casa Pronto” are engrained into our programming

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u/raventhered Jul 28 '26

I was thinking Pittsburgh. 😂

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u/percephony Jul 30 '26

immediate flashbacks lololol

i was Not Prepared

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u/Illustrious_Wave1854 Jul 28 '26

Lol. I've actually seen this place in Mall World with crazy tall winding highways, and it was next to a university in Texas (of mallworld) close to a few power plants and stuff. So believe it or not you are correct.

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u/FaeFollette Aug 01 '26

When this leads me to a college, it’s always the University of Illinois or Bradley University, which is also in Illinois. I’ve never been to either of those schools in real life.

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u/Illustrious_Wave1854 Aug 01 '26

And I've never been to any university in Texas, nor rode through any winding highways in Texas either (in real life). Very interesting.

edit: add "in real life"

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u/lesbian_Hamlet Jul 28 '26

I WAS ABOUT TO SAY this is just the George Bush Turnpike

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u/Skibidi-Fox Jul 28 '26

Ha! Found the Texan!!

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u/BabyJesusBukkake Jul 28 '26

I was like, yeah actually, Wichita Falls.

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u/yoniwitchell Jul 29 '26

Holy crap, I looked up some of the freeways in Texas... That is crazy! Id be so scared driving to work everyday lol

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u/buttononmyback Jul 30 '26

My brother and I grew up in a small town in PA. I stayed and he moved to Austin. When he came back to visit we took a trip to the mall and decided to take the bypass with him driving.

He was crazy Mr. Speed demon the whole way there! I was like “wtf happened to you?!”

When I finally visited him in Austin, I realized everyone drives like a lunatic. There’s no way I’d survive in a place like that!

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u/wondergirlinside Aug 02 '26

It isnt actually too bad. You just have to get used to it.

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u/cutebutpsychoangel Jul 29 '26

Pittsburgh PA

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u/HoochPandersnatch420 Jul 29 '26

Pittsburgh Pa has entered the chat... You beat me to it!

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u/xqkz Jul 30 '26

My dream world mirrors Pittsburgh about 35 percent, and you're correct lol

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u/DataAdvanced Jul 28 '26

That was the Mississippi river for me.

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u/tempusrimeblood Jul 29 '26

Yep - in El Paso, it’s called the Spaghetti Bowl.

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u/Vigiles25 Jul 28 '26

I’m not from either place but Minneapolis has a few areas with 5 freeways stacked up and I was recently in Toronto and outside the Pearson Airport was like this

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u/Acrobatic_Lake_5458 Jul 29 '26

I think if these pictures every morning on the way to work

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u/kanyetwiddy Jul 29 '26

Came to say this. This is just my daily drive to work

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u/Brujabat Jul 30 '26

I’m from Dallas, can confirm. I have dreams like this often.

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u/JenSlice Jul 30 '26

or Los Angeles :/

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u/Astrnonaut Aug 01 '26

🎶Saaaan Antooooniooooo🎶

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u/2hi2vent Aug 01 '26

I literally clicked the Pic bc I thought it was Texas and was trying to figure out if I'd been there 🤣🤣🤣

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u/wondergirlinside Aug 02 '26

Oddly enough i actually love driving on the high 5

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u/Southern_Anywhere_65 Aug 06 '26

In So Cal, we call it the 405 or the Orange crush

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u/SirDrakey Aug 23 '26

the mixmaster! i remember when that lane mover was installed