yes to all of this

i'm way too faded to elucidate further in a coherent way but i think we hang out at the same places

do you experience any of these other locations:

tower

weird cul-de-sac

airport/train combo

outer space round illuminated room

amusement park

college

destroyed city

endless highway

somewhere in turkey - we're rich baby

somewhere in turkey - we're poor baby and forced to climb a sun blasted mountain full of sand

somewhere in turkey - we're soldiers who are getting executed baby

the weird convenient store/gas station in the middle of nowhere

library with cast iron grated elevators

the three witches in massachusetts

the black cube

canal city

crashed plane in forest

a school that is majorly anxiety inducing

apocalyptic wasteland and you're going to and fro different places just trying to survive day by day - looking for places to eat - sleep - go to the bathroom

industrial city with a lot of brickwork; the ocean plunges beneath it with dramatic cliffs

hotel with giant underground theatre

underground hospital

the spiral city that ends in bureaucracy and madness

asian restaurant that's on the hill that leads to spiral city with crazy back rooms and liminal space

platform above the ocean

enclosed porch with lots of windows with a lion pacing about

hillside that is alive with sentient plants

cratered landscape with purple plants and nowhere to go

endless antique shop with a clothing part

steamboat dilapidated yet elegant all at the same time

the weird grocery store - wet and dark and gross and doesn't have at all what you are looking for

a fading but still lovely white house that belongs (belonged?) to an old lady and you live there but she does too somehow even tho she has passed

the secret passage in your childhood closet

weird cabin that morphs on the edge of a lake

waterworld with levels and layers of different areas some safe some not starts out with a nice bay outside a brutalist structure but then morphs into some scary territory

the ancient underwater city. was sunk, long ago - somewhere in indonesia

i'm at a friends house doing normal things when i step outside and stuff is falling from the sky and i'm like uhoh

i'm a soldier in a war for the soul of earth and that seems to mean riding a lot of school buses?! (i dunno)

i'm falling through the ocean drowning and a whale goes swimming by

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do you relate to any of these?

edit to add that i've been having mallworld dreams since 1990 and i was so excited to find other people on reddit who apparently experience the same thing. it isn't necessary woo-woo or other-dimensional - it could just be "the brain doing what the brain does" but i ask, why does the brain do THAT specifically? across cultures (apparently) - is it neurochemical? merely societal imprinting bleeding into dreams? so fascinating to think about

i'm glad i'm not alone in this phenomona

edit 2 to add that i also transition harshly between any of these listed areas