Mall and Friends

6/17/2025|By Soulesk

I was walking around a downtown area and I ended up at these shopping mall structures. I was entering different malls and there was a girl in one of the last ones I went into. It was like the girl was trying to be my friend but I had forgotten about people who try to sell you things and stuff so I thought she was genuinely trying to be my friend and she was really nice. Then I realized she was just trying to sell me things and promote things possibly by being with me and by being around me it made it seem like it was genuine friendship and interest to others around us. I told myself 'i don't know why I'm talking to her anyway' so I left. I ended up seeing someone who was an old friend IRL outside and she started talking to me. I realized that she was possibly just like this other girl and that she possibly had been like that my whole life but never realized it until after that instance of meeting the other girl. She came up to me and said "Hey let's go out, I want to take you somewhere" In the past IRL she has taken me out to places, she's bought me food and has paid for me to get a facial a $200 facial before IRL. She wanted to take me out but before we got there she was asking me a lot of questions, she asked "what have you been up to" I told her I was healing myself and I was on this path and everything. She said "Oh me too!!!" she started talking about her path and how she was living more peaceful, pure and all these things. Then I told her yeah but recently I stopped and she got confused. I said "Uh, 4202020 just passed and I was on a reverse cleanse and celebrating upon myself, it was a spiritual soul decision, nobody told me to do it I just chose this for myself." This experience was true IRL too but was also telling her in the dream. "Wasn't telling anyone to do it too because I didn't want to be the start of something and I didn't want to start things or get people off their path or whatever their into or doing with their lives so I kept it to myself as a soul decision" and I told her that. She put her head down, begining to look really sad. She was someone I used to smoke with and someone I used to get really trashed with. She put her head down and was staring at the floor for awhile. She's not someone I would have wanted to accompany me anyways because she has a baby IRL. Then she says, "well I want to take you somewhere" She took me to this woman and said "oh sit here" This woman is talking to me and her and starts telling us to do stuff. She has these chia seeds and they're really big. Chia seeds expand and she put them in an oatmilk and also put some herbal oils with it that are good for your skin. They were really big, almost the size of orbeeze but a tad smaller than orbeeze. I wanted to eat it cause it looked so good. She said to put it on our faces but my friend couldn't get the chia seeds on her face. I tilted my head back, started placing them on my face. I left it on and they stuck to my face. It was very meditative, one of those physical meditative things where you touch it and its relieves the stress but it was on my face. My friend wanted to know how I did it so I just told her I'd put them on for her. Told her to tilt her head back and I put them on her face. She laid back with it on her face for awhile. The woman said, "don't mind me, I'll just sit here and watch you both put your masks on, if you need help I'm right here". She was already too late we had them on at that point and just watched us struggling before the fact. So I decided to look at what was in the bucket saying,"what else is in here for us to do?" At that point I didn't really want the woman helping us because she was of no help. Then the woman looked at me and said, "You really do know about self healing cause you can just do these things on your own" She has these herbal plant stems which you break and they smell. So I broke one, layed with it and was smelling it. She said, "that's exactly what that's for, except this is what I do" She grabbed it and she started swirling it around our faces like a reiki healing session. Felt like aroma therapy and reiki healing combined, and it was so nice. After that she said, "ok sessions over" I just put my face in the bucket and I wiped all the orbeeze sized chia seeds off my face. My face was looking so nice, then I left. My friend said, "we should hangout more" I said, "I don't know if I can, I'm really busy" Then I said, "I have to go, thank you for showing me that" I left and ended up seeing a guy. He said, "Hey how's it going, how are you?" He wanted to hangout, just a stranger. I said, "oh I'm good, how are you?" He wanted me to go with him, we were still inside of the mall structure. So I went with him and followed him and he asked, "what are you doing alone at the mall?" I said, "oh I'm just looking around shopping, I just got a facial done earlier with a friend." He said, "oh that's cool... your face looks really nice. I was going to say that earlier but I thought it would be really weird to say but now it makes sense." I said,"is that why you talked to me?" He said,"well yea I thought you were really pretty. Are you looking to meet anyone?" I said, "well yea I'm meeting you, I'm talking to you so yea id be up for meeting more people I guess since I'm already in the process of. I usually do things alone" He said, "ok, comon, I have a friend to show you " He showed me his friend that looked just like him but was dressed a little differently. This guy was dressed more alt and punk and his friend was different. His friend started talking to me and it seemed like he really liked me. He said, "I really like your style" I said, "oh thank you" He said, "I dress the same way" I told him, "oh really? It doesn't seem like it" He said, "Yeah no, it's just because sometimes I dress like this but typically I dress like that. I dress different all the time, I have different styles." I said "oh yeah that's cool, I do the same thing but there is one thing I typically do which I've done my whole life and it's mostly like this." He said, "Yeah, same here, but lately I've been trying to be colorful." He then says, "hey come with me, let's hangout." I say,"ok" He tells me we're going somewhere and tells me to drive and I'm in his truck, a big truck and tires are really big. He leaves for a bit, comes back and he's dressed differently. He comes into the car and says, "see!?" I say "oh yeah, but your still colorful, a little bit." He says, "Yeah because I told you I'm trying to be more colorful but see I look different!?" I said, "Yea you look different, your style is different" He says,"oh look my friends coming. My friend doesn't know how to dress, my friend doesn't have a sense of style" His friend comes into the car and it's a girl, I thought it was going to be the other guy. She sits in the car and he says"look at her, she's just wearing a North face shirt" and starts laughing. I look back at him and look at her and she says "oh be quiet" I say, "that's ok if she wants to wear that, I mean we are going out..." He says, "Yeah we're going out, why would you be wearing that, were going out. You might meet a guy you like" She says, "I already like you." He says, "well I found her" and points at me. I say, "Aannd I am looking for whatever, like I might find somebody else. So there's this strange love triangle going on and maybe I don't want to be apart of it, who knows." He says, "Yeah and so you might meet someone all in all " She says, "well whatever, I don't care." I say, "if you want me to help you, I could help you get something better on, we could go shopping first" she says, "No I wanna wear this" I say, "oh, ok" so we go out and I think we head to the beach shopping fake new healing old friend experiences friends

AI Generated Interpretation

Your dream stages a recurring inner question about authenticity versus performance. The malls and the woman who initially seems friendly as she quietly sells reveal a sensitivity to relationships that feel transactional: people who attach themselves to you because your presence confers value. Waking life details—being surprised by someone’s motive, recognizing a pattern in an old friend—show up directly here. Emotionally you move from easy trust to wary awareness; the line “I don’t know why I’m talking to her anyway” marks a boundary being noticed and taken. There’s a bittersweet shift in realizing generosity in the past (gifts, facials) can coexist with a role you don’t fully want to play. The facial ritual with oversized chia seeds is rich with symbolic meaning about self-care and transformation. The mask is both playful and meditative—something tactile that soothes and changes how you look and feel. That you can apply the mask yourself and that it improves your appearance speaks to an internal resource: you are capable of your own healing rituals and don’t always need a guide. The “helpful” woman who watches and then affirms your competence gestures toward the archetypal healer who supports individuation rather than taking control. Breaking the plant stems and inhaling their scent suggests a reconnection with simple, embodied practices—aroma, touch, and rhythm—that anchor you as you change. Several scenes explore persona and style as a language you use in the world. The conversation with people who shift outfits and claim different “styles” mirrors how you present yourself and how others perform identity. Clothes and the truck with oversized tires are a kind of armor or signal: public personas you try on, shows of power or playfulness, and the recognition that someone’s outer look can be intentionally changeable. The interaction that becomes a quirky, potential love triangle points to ambivalence about being desired and about the social frictions that come when choices about intimacy or friendship feel complicated. You seem curious and open but also cautious about becoming entangled in other people’s dynamics. A recurrent emotional theme is agency—choosing your path rather than being chosen for someone else’s purposes. You celebrate a private spiritual decision in the dream just as in waking life, and that decision creates distance from people who assumed you’d move the same way they did. The sadness of the friend who “put her head down” may reflect how your autonomy creates ripples in relationships: people can feel left behind, and you notice that without needing to carry their feelings as blame. The dream honors both your compassion and your need for honest boundaries; you leave invitations open but decline to enter patterns that don’t fit. Finally, the beach at the end and the overall arc suggest movement toward openness and emotional refreshment. After the marketplaces, performances, and little rituals, the beach feels like a gentle transition into a place where you can be less performative—where the self you’ve been cultivating meets a broader emotional landscape. Practically, this dream invites reflection on when to accept care, when to do it for yourself, and how to keep generosity without losing autonomy. It reads as a warm affirmation: you are learning to navigate relationships with clearer eyes and kinder tools, and your inner life offers real, tactile methods of healing that you can rely on on the journey ahead.

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