This dream happened in New York, NY
April 30, 2021
Male, 25 to 34
United States
Dreamer: AdamX
Lucidity: Partial
Enhancement: Dream Lab Video Course
Details:
I drove to an outside mall area, a unified collection of outdoor stores but with a central office and customer service area. It’s not a place in real life I’ve ever been to but in my dream it seemed like I must have been; my dream self thought that a couple stores had changed or shut down.
I went there to go to a card collection store, specifically for a certain Pokemon card for my son. I seemed to know which one I was searching for although it was never “said” in the dream.
I got to the complex which was small upon arrival and for some reason – even though I had never been here before – I assumed the card store was in a certain place. I found myself right off the bat kinda lingering in front of a store that was now empty but I knew it used to be a store I really liked. I think it was a place to get food or something, kind of like a Starbucks. It was just a shell, gutted. So I wander around a corner toward the card store only to realize I have no clue where I’m going. I look around at all the colorful signs and storefronts and none of them remotely seem like the store I’m there for and I start to feel like I don’t have much time to find it. The signs I see are gibberish in the dream, but I know they don’t say card store.
I think to myself I should have been better prepared. I should have looked up the location online. I think to look it up now on my phone but don’t have reception. I also realize I have now forgotten the store’s name! It’s all going downhill!
So I wander looking for someone to ask. I pass a customer service desk but don’t stop. I think there wasn’t anyone tending it. I keep going and eventually find like the admin offices or business desk area in the basement of one of the buildings. It was kind of like the DMV. Drab, outdated with a few counters for different purposes. One counter had a sign above it saying Bad Debt. I was glad I didn’t have to be in that one. I was surprised to see the line for that one being quite long. All types and sorts of people in it, young and old. Couldn’t figure out why it was here. All the stores were separate from one another. So why would there be a central desk for this?
Anyway I found my counter. There wasn’t a line so I walked right up. Two older ladies helped me. I tried to explain the store I was looking for but neither had any idea. They asked someone else who was able to tell me where it was, and the name. I walked up and back outside and started toward where they said. As soon as I got outside, I realized I forgot the name of the place AGAIN! Didn’t matter, I remembered where it was.
I got there, and realized it was where I looked originally. What the…?? I went in and asked for the card. Suddenly the card I was asking for was very childlike and cartoonish. I harshed on myself for going through all this for THIS card. I could get this at Target. The guy at the store said they don’t carry Pokémon anyway, sorry.
All for naught!! And the dream ended.
Keywords: Pokémon, searching, mall, stores, lost
Visibility: Everyone
Content: General