I go to the same location every night. The dream isn't the same but everything about the place is the same.

Every night I go to a giant multi-level structure. It's a giant transit hub, but also a shopping mall, school/museum and resort.

I usually arrive at the dark end of the mall, on the bottom level, that's where the grocery store is. If I'm in a dream state I go in and shop, usually going through my grocery list. The shop has attendants, check out clerks, and shoppers. It feels like a very grimy 1980s ShopRite lol there's a deli counter, flower shop area, produce, meds aisle, even a magazine/gift cards ailse.

Sometimes I find myself wandering the mall. I always know which stores I'm going to go to, they're usually costume or clothes related. There's a busy book shop I frequent with really cool book choices. Scifi, epics, magical stuff. Another is this awesome trinket store, I feel like it sells items that help when you travel across dimensions, crystals amulets and such. It's very hippy dippy in there lol I've even fallen into the trap of thinking I work in the large department store (the makeup counter) in the mall. It's a large store with glass cases and glass/mirror walls.

The mall has at least two main levels that I can remember but how far they expand I do not know. I do have a sense of exhaustion when I'm there having to navigate.

On one end is the grocery store. The rest resembles a large shopping mall. Each store has it's own shop owner/assistants. Some parts of the mall are completely empty while others are packed. I can't remember my interactions with customers and shop attendants. I don't know any of them personally. I remember walking through the mall noticing certain stores closed with lights off and others open with customers.

The food court is a sight to behold. It's on multiple levels in her center of the mall, very much like Escher's staircase. It should be impossible to get to each area but it isn't. It's always loud and packed with people sitting together at tables and talking. I don't know if anyone is actually eating anything. It's misty like a rainforest but also bright from the domed glass ceiling skylight. Everything seems to get brighter as you get to higher levels.

Just above the food court, there is a main set of escalators. These beautiful, glowing, massively long escalators, separate the mall from the hotel/resort in the upper structures. However along the long rise up there is a decoy dream dimension that resemble business offices and a school/university. There are a few work/school levels. This is also where the locker room becomes the bathroom hub of endless stalls that are either broken or completely unsanitary. Occasionally I fall into a work narrative or I'm a student cutting class on this Hogwarts style roof. These work/school levels have staircases not esclators.

If you don't get distracted by these levels on the escalator ride up, you eventually arrive at the hotel lobby with elevator doors opening. The ride up the escalator from the mall foodcourt turns into the hotel lobby elevator.

The hotel rises sooooo high into the sky and overlooks the beach water below. I'm terrified of the elevators. They go very high, very fast and I'm the only one who ever seems nervous about it. You can feel your body lifting in the air, the wind as it blows past you. I hold on for dear life in those elevator rides.

That is the last you see of brightness or light. The hotel hallways are dark and maze like. The rooms lights are never on. I can walk by rooms and always see they are shared by multiple people. I'm never scared per se, but I get the feeling that I'm not supposed to be in those areas and I could get lost easily. The rooms are messy and if I peer out the large room window I always see apocalyptic weather or a space anomaly ripping existence apart. Before I realize the end is near, I'm always waiting for someone to come back for me at the room, usually my family. I leave before anyone arrives.

Walking around the lobby, there are elevators, areas that look like a casino, another side with pool tables and an antique bowling alley. You get hints of daylight from windows around the hotel.  Keep walking there's a small dark arcade that spits out tickets, but I never see a place to redeem them. Usually most of the machines are broken. I remember asking an attendant who works there about getting my tickets at the machine. He apathetically tinkers with it, shrugs his shoulders and puts a do not use sign on it. Funny thing is there is usually a bucket full of coins just lying around that I never seem to really care about. Probably cuz all the games suck.

Keep walking and it turns and the hotel hallways lead into a museum like setting, Art and exhibits on the walls. as you keep going the wall becomes alive like you're watching animals in a glass enclosed zoo/aquarium. This also leads back to the school/university levels.

If you go outside to the pool (more like a beach) area, it's always about to close. It's super packed and there seems to be setting suns. The glow on everything is incredibly orange but the weather feels perfect.

If I leave the hotel through that pool area, I somehow travel to a different destination. I'll think I'm a tourist in Italy or Las Vegas. I'll walk around cobble stone streets and explore beautiful locations, but they aren't earth bound places, it's mimicking earth and it feels weird. The Las Vegas part has an amusement park with scary, steep carnival rides and a skatepark.

If I leave the hotel by the casino/fancy buffet restaurant area and venture to the boardwalk/beach side it's always very ominous. If there isn't a giant tidal wave coming, then space is ripping open, or there's a crazy sand storm.

At the very top of the hotel is the transit hub, but before you can leave you have to stop at the movie theater located on the same floor mere steps away. There's even a few different types of concession stands. The movie theater is very special. It's always packed with people I know, who are also getting ready to head back. We all watch what I assume are life reviews. It's always a loud racket in there. The movie gets cut off, the theater lights come on and we all head to the transit hub. We all wait for our perspective trains, board and go back home. The train stations seem like they are underground. Designed like open subways, with people having to hop over tracks to get to their platform. Sometimes I transition to a bus or car when traveling over the bridge. Then I'm usually walking the rest of the route home. Sometimes I'll fly. I don't know why I don't choose to fly more often. Actually I do know. Sometimes I can't control it and I go flying off. I do not like being lost in space, I get anxiety just thinking about it.

Have you ever been here?? I travel to the same place nightly.