I just remembered something I wanted to ask about dream interpretation. I have a dream scenario that must mean something, due to it’s repetition.
I often find myself in malls. The malls I dream of are usually gargantuan in size, yet only hold a handful of normal sized stores. Usually they are filled with many escalators and/or elevators, and a couple of the areas are recurring. A B. Daltons, a GameStop-like store (which is always near-barren), a large arcade, a movie store, and some kind of dark store that varies every time.
The arcade is the area I remember most, because the first mall dream I had, it was full of those sit-down racing games, except they all had styrofoam cups for steering wheels.
The movie store was a more recent addition to these dream malls, appearing once before as a technology store.
In it’s first incarnation, it was displaying strange Faces Of Death type films on it’s demonstration televisions, and they were selling crime scene photo-filled magazines. I’d go into more detail, but I can’t on this site. As it showed up again as the movie store, they had all sorts of snuff films and Z-Grade sleaze horror, and I remember trying to steal them to prove the existence of snuff films.
I’ve always been fascinated by nightmares, and the mall dreams involving the movie store have always disturbed me, so if someone can help me find the signifigance of malls and whatnot I’d greatly appreciate it.
(Also, I do know somewhat what the meaning of the snuff films are, it’s far too dark for this site)
unfortunately i cant help you analyse this dream - im only good at analysing dream stories. However what fascinates me is that you have the same (or similar) entirely imaginary dreamscape in many different dreams. I never get this, as all my dreams are either set in random places that i make up, school or somewhere im familiar with, or occasionally variations of places im familiar with, as they are usually very accurate pictures of the actual place.
I dream with malls and arcades too… I believe there isn’t much to the whole concept. I go to malls a lot, and I love videogames and arcade games. So I always end up dreaming with these things.
Now, onto the details, the bloody/crime/horror-ish/snuff movies/etc, that’s where you should focus.
How do you feel about them? Are they gross? Are they, in any way, “nice”, or appealing to you?
Yeah, I’m the type of person who’ll watch films like Faces Of Death and the like for hours on end. The films in my dreams were nothing like the actual films, though. If I remember correctly, the dream-movies focused more on deformities and impossible death situations than on blood and gore. I’m used to having twisted dreams, but these were just “different” somehow.
I can’t tell you what the dream means to you but I can give some thoughts on it.
We are a “consumer society” … america even has the american dream. So we are led to believe we have many choices. But when you enter this large mall … you find only a few normal size shops … a big disappointment.
The movies could be a comment on our voyeuristic society. How the papers and news love giving more details than is needed on bad events that happen.
Hmm… I’ll give it my best shot, however the best person to look at for deciphering dreams is yourself, since you know more about it then anyone else.
I think the giant mall represents your veiw of the world- very big, but you feel like there are only a few options in your life. The horror films, by my best guess, symbolize that you know that there are bad things in the world, but you’re the only person who sees them and you want to show the world that these things can’t be ignored.