I've had very little recall of dreams lately and I only recall bits and pieces of this one. Work and family were both incorporated. I was looking at a house to buy. It was in a mall, above the shopping floors. The house was kind of abandoned although I think I'd visited it and stayed there earlier. There were two bedrooms. They were big octagonal rooms, each with a couple of rooms off of them. I wondered how that was supposed to work and if each could be a suite of sorts with 2 bedrooms off a common room. After looking at the living quarters I was walking though the mall part. There were escalators up to basically a overlook in the mall - you went up to a perch and then back down. The whole mall came with the purchase. A friend or family member commented to me how malls are dying and probably not a good investment. I knew this mall to be a small (in the dream) mall. I recall pointing out that it was doing well b/c there was no competition and even in the morning midweek, it seemed busy. In the dream I knew this to be a particular mall in another (smaller) city a little over an hour away from where I live in my state. I should point out I've never been to this mall and don't think I know anything about it in real life other than having heard the name a time or two over the years. Maybe this dream was just fluff. I can't make heads or tales of what it would represent otherwise.
Living at the mall
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Lyn Holley
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A home in a mall might indicate that work has taken over your homelife.
I love dreams that turn our perspective on its head, as this one seems to do. 
Lots of information even in a partial recall, new places to "explore".
To me, what you recall doesn't seem to be loaded with symbolism, so perhaps it's simply one of those which rearranges our reality with new ideas (like addressing the housing crunch and obsolescence of malls at the same time--are you in real estate, by chance?). Perhaps you were viewing an alternate mode of living/thinking (lifestyle)--in my experience, some dreams simply throw out ideas to see what sticks. I am also having very few dreams outside the normal contented "white noise", and so we must cherish (and pick at) those few that pique our interest, if only to make sure we're not missing any meaning. For this one, I find it interesting that a close friend/family is being the naysayer to your investment, and would be curious if you remembered more around this dynamic (both in how you felt about the purchase/reasoning, and how the other person affected your confidence). Perhaps malls could become "condos with benefits", heh. The travel industry might despair at the rise of a close-knit self-sufficient idea that isn't cult-like, but lots of current situations make this a trend worth considering.
Lots of information even in a partial recall, new places to "explore". To me, what you recall doesn't seem to be loaded with symbolism, so perhaps it's simply one of those which rearranges our reality with new ideas (like addressing the housing crunch and obsolescence of malls at the same time--are you in real estate, by chance?). Perhaps you were viewing an alternate mode of living/thinking (lifestyle)--in my experience, some dreams simply throw out ideas to see what sticks. I am also having very few dreams outside the normal contented "white noise", and so we must cherish (and pick at) those few that pique our interest, if only to make sure we're not missing any meaning. For this one, I find it interesting that a close friend/family is being the naysayer to your investment, and would be curious if you remembered more around this dynamic (both in how you felt about the purchase/reasoning, and how the other person affected your confidence). Perhaps malls could become "condos with benefits", heh. The travel industry might despair at the rise of a close-knit self-sufficient idea that isn't cult-like, but lots of current situations make this a trend worth considering.
Yes, I tend to think it was just my mind running through random bits and pieces more than anything meaningful and highly symbolic. It did strike me odd though, especially since I've had very little recall of my dreams after waking lately. In this dream, I knew it to be a certain city elsewhere in my state. Usually, the place feels like home but isn't formalized with a name. It is never the actual layout of the city I live in or the town I'm from. I recognize it from dream to dream though and know my way around it in the dream. Its an odd detail I've become aware of. I work in the site development industry and have also had a fascination with unusual homes and adaptive reuse projects so that may have bled in. I wasn't looking at the house/mall as an investment. That was just an added bonus that popped up after I'd toured the living quarters. The coworkers weren't necessarily people I recognize, just shadowy characters I guess that had that work life vibe about them.
I just shared on thread where someone was asking about deja vu and dreams that years ago I visited Phoenix for work and realized I'd been there in dreams. Something to consider I guess. It'd be weird if that's the town where I work and reside in my dreams. I can't really say for certain if I've ever visited it. I've been by on the interstate but if I've ever stopped I don't recall it.