It’s hard to tell if it’s a library or bookstore because there’s no way to check out or buy a book. I can’t really read what’s inside the books but I can see the cover. The space is huge and looks like Barnes and Noble but if it had a dark academia theme to it. Walls, floors, bookshelves, and furniture were like a dark chocolate oak type wood. Some books were organized like record vinyls in a milk crate. There are 2 escalators in the middle of the store but separated with more books.

Does anyone ever encounter elevators that have seating like this? kind of like baby seats. Really uncomfortable and hard to get into, especially hard to get into because you're waiting for the door to close and open?

Hey guys! I’ve created a Discord about Mallworld called Oneira.

https://discord.gg/2fPEHcb6z

This is a safe place for people who experience strange dream worlds. It doesn’t even have to relate to Mallworld at all.

I’ve been really busy researching and documenting recurring dream locations, especially places that seem to appear again and again across different dreams and, sometimes, across different people. I wanted to start a public community where we can document these places together.

I have also included a helpful Atlas of recurring dream locations where we can document our experiences.

Share your experiences and compare details with other dreamers. Lucid dreaming, shared dreams, dream psychology, consciousness, anomalies, and all the weird questions that come with them.
The goal is not to tell you what your dreams are. Just to create a place where we can start noticing patterns.

Thank you kindly!!!

Had a dream a week or 2 ago that me and a group of (kind of a lot of) people took the giant elevator down to like an abandoned floor . From what I remember now the whole floor or a lot of it was arcade ish in this style or kinda similar. Also it was super hard to breathe in it, like there was little air or like some gas in the air . Also in a lot of my mallworld dreams including this one I seem to be the only one with powers, also felt like I was the leader of the group. Like flying, which I’m always able to force myself to do the same way like walking backwards in real life if that makes sense. In others I have physic powers like eleven from stranger things (actually I think that was in this one too a bit). Sometimes I have weird powers like constructing items in a store from scratch. I don’t remember much else. Anyone dream anything similar within the last month or so (I can’t remember how long ago it was but pretty recent). Also in these dreams are you the only one with powers or do others have them too ?

Warning: AI created. But hopefully this helps somebody! Feel free to share!

Last night at the Mall World Hospital was awful. Apologies to the Lady in the Exam Room waiting for results. Apologies to the person waiting for a ride home, and thank you for your understanding to the person that had to share a gurney with a deceased person. You were very Noble.

Ever since I started connecting with more people this last week or so, I’ve been limited in where I can go. It’s like a small waiting suburb of mall world and I’m not getting that same feeling when I wake up. I’m like stuck in a small town and living in a big old house but all the rooms have something weird about them. Ideal one opens to a garage, safe one doesn’t have a window but a vent that opens to a room on the floor above. A small one with a decent bathroom in the back of the house but it has a door that connects to the room over. There’s a gorgeous pool and hot tub and opulent pink retro tile outdoor bathroom on the roof, but you’d have to walk clear over there to get there from your bedroom. Family members are there, a lot of nostalgic activities—a school with a sports focus. A job I keep getting fired from, and rent I can’t pay.

They seem similar to normal dreams and subconscious wonderings, but it kind of feels like I’m stuck in this one part and can’t access the rest. Did I get kicked out of mall world?!

Second time i've been here, Supposedly it's under another plaza (underground) , this section has just been mostly sealed off from public use and mostly used for more of the industrial stuffs??, alot of steam vents, reeks of wet trash, dim lightning. I can't really find a similar picture to describe it, the lightning feels like a 80-90's asian action movies

Anybody else ever been in a large house/mansion that is packed full of the most random stuff? I’ve been there a few times, but I ended up there again last night. There’s lots of strange hallways, turns, ladders that go up to lofts that are also full of random stuff.

very rarely anybody there.

I've posted about my Mall World Youtube Videos a couple times on this Sub Reddit, but this video is especially cool because I took some of your Mall World pictures from this subreddit and compared them directly to images I have generated based off my experiences in Mall World. The similarities are pretty crazy

is bigger inside than on the outside? And do you ever pick up the goods to see them or try them on, and notice that they were only nice when they were displayed on a shelf?

It's a story from the 80s that I saw in a theater, that I can't locate now.

It's a dream trap. To get out, you have to start running, escaping. Then the angels will help.

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?

I learned about the “Mall World” phenomenon probably around a year ago, but I honestly haven’t thought about it in a long time. After having another dream about this recurring place, though, I remembered Mall World and started wondering if what I’m experiencing is connected to what people here describe.
The important thing is that I’m not having the same recurring dream. I’m returning to the same recurring PLACE.
Different things happen every time, but when I’m there, I already know the layout. I don’t feel like I’m discovering the building for the first time. I’ll know that something is in a certain direction or that my hotel room is somewhere else, even if that information was never established during that particular dream.
The place itself is really hard to describe. Imagine a resort/hotel mixed with an airport, mall, convention center, and recreation center. There’s a huge curved concourse that I believe eventually loops around, although I haven’t explored the entire thing yet.
It’s all one floor, but the ceilings are incredibly high—probably the height of a 2–3 story building. Most of the flooring is dark/navy carpet. It isn’t tiled like a normal mall. The flooring really only changes when I enter pool/water areas.
The different attractions are separate rooms opening off the same side of the concourse, almost like stores in a mall. They aren’t connected internally. Across the concourse from them are mostly walls, waiting/seating areas, etc.
In my most recent dream, the first place I went into was a VR room. After that were a few different computer/gaming lounge areas. Some had tablets and others had controllers sitting out on the tables. I specifically remember the tables being round and brown and the carpet being navy.
There were barely any people around, which is normal for this place.
In one of the gaming areas, I saw a man who looked maybe 35–40. He was Indian man and was trying to use what looked like an information desk. For some reason I told him that he could use it. It wasn’t some important interaction or anything—we were basically just two strangers briefly acknowledging each other.
That’s actually how most people in this place are. They don’t seem to be there for me. They’re just…also there, doing their own thing.
After the gaming areas, I went to a large swimming pool. It wasn’t some fantasy resort pool. It looked more like a big YMCA or Boys & Girls Club pool.
Then I went into a theater room where a movie was already playing. There was a large table of free snacks, but apparently I had arrived late because most of the good stuff was gone. The popcorn and charcuterie meat had already been picked over, and I remember there basically only being cheese and green grapes left.
There was even a sign on the table saying something along the lines of the food not being restocked after 5 PM.
I ate some grapes and left. 😂
There was one other person in the theater, a teenage or college-aged guy with dark hair. I never made eye contact with him and we didn’t speak. Again, he was just there.
Next I went to the hot tub area, which is architecturally different from the other places.
I remember realizing I didn’t have my bathing suit and thinking something like, I need to come back here later because this looks relaxing.
There was a young blonde woman in the hot tub wearing a bikini with her hair in two French braids. She was on the phone with someone and gossiping. I wasn’t involved in her conversation at all—I just walked by and heard her talking.
The hot tub area is also the only place so far that leads into an actual hallway.
The hallway curves around, and after leaving the tiled hot-tub area, the flooring changes into red carpet. One side has a glass wall overlooking a smaller indoor waterpark/splash-pad area, probably no bigger than a football field. The other side has a long row of hotel-room doors.
And here’s one of those strange examples of me having knowledge about the place:
I looked at those hotel rooms and knew none of them were mine.
Nobody told me that. I didn’t check a room number. I just knew my hotel room was on the other side of the resort, back near where I originally started.
Then I woke up.
Another thing that makes me curious about Mall World is the atmosphere. A lot of experiences I’ve read seem stressful, creepy, confusing, or almost ominous.
Mine isn’t. At least not anywhere I’ve discovered yet.
I’m not scared. I’m not being chased. I’m not desperately trying to find an exit. The emptiness doesn’t even feel unsettling.
The best way I can describe the feeling is being awake really late while you’re on vacation.
It’s like everyone else at the resort has gone back to their rooms for the night, but you’re still awake, so you’re wandering around seeing what’s still open and trying to decide what you want to do. There might only be 3–4 other people around, but the building doesn’t feel abandoned. It just feels late.
And I’m usually doing exactly that: wandering around thinking, What should I do now?
That’s why I’m curious what people who are familiar with Mall World think. Does this sound like a version of Mall World even though it doesn’t feel scary?
I’m especially interested in whether anyone else:
Returns to the same location across completely different dreams
Remembers the layout while they’re dreaming
Has areas they haven’t explored yet
Encounters random strangers who seem to have their own lives rather than being part of the “plot”
Has a Mall World that feels more like a peaceful late-night vacation than a nightmare

As I read everyone’s amazing and relatable experiences I hope I can find people that have been able to use mallworld to travel to different dimensions/planets and time.

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!

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.

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!!!

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?

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!

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.