This is actually a fairly ubiquitous setting for many dreams.
A mall is a location that offers a variety of retail establishments, so on one hand it represents your access to a certain form of abundance, prosperity, and freedom. On the other hand, it has a connotation of a lack of sophistication that must be taken into consideration when interpreting a dream that takes place there. There are many choices at a mall, and this is a strong element of the symbolic meaning associated with such a location.
If your dream takes place at a mall, you are exploring your consciousness of choices that you have about abundance and prosperity in your life, but the ideas being expressed may be more connected to the social pressures to experience wealth in a very particular way that is not necessarily aligned with abundance as a spiritual principle.
[1]To dream of being at a shopping mall means that those things that you need (affection, friendship, spiritual support, quality time with people you care about) are available to you. However, you may need to learn exactly where to look, how to select what you need, and how to ask for these things when you need them. This dream calls upon you to know yourself. Before you can ask for or get what you need, you need to figure out what it is that you want.
If you dream that you are lost in a shopping mall, you don’t know where to turn for support with a certain problem.
To dream that you are shopping for food and groceries symbolizes your hidden attempt to buy the attention of others.
[2]Dreams of a mall symbolize either a “have” or a “have not” consciousness. Because a mall has all that you desire and could materially wish for, dreams of a mall represents that you are shopping for ideas about what kind of life/relationship/job you want to have.
[3]1. The dreamer yearns to “keep up with the joneses” by acquiring material goods, often unnecessary.
2. Desire to meet and possibly flirt with others.
3. Need to make decisions, especially financial ones.
[4]To dream that you are at the mall implies that you are trying to create a favorable impression for somebody.
The mall is also represents that you covet and the desire to acquire what your peers own.
[5]Public place of various impersonal services
[6]Symbolic of life’s choices
[7]Many choices in life.
[8]1. Marketplace,
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