Leaving the matrix

Dream Fragment: I'm at what seems like half school half mall. I know I don't have to be there, but I'm keeping an eye for out for school security or people of authority catching me outside or something. I walk into this half inside half outside hallway that's tarped off from the outside with blue tarp. I'm walking passed people walking around and suddenly I panic and realize the many bathroom doors beside me and I quickly enter one. When I get inside it's very dim with only the outside light slightly lighting it. I see two men, one with short hair and one with long hair. They scream like wusses and I apologize and say I thought this was the girls room, and I see a door to the right of me and ask the guy with the long hair who's sitting on a toilet with no stall if this led to the girls room and he say yes, so I walk in there but there's a shit ton of girls in there so I end up just leaving the restroom.

Me and friend 1 are walking about this mall i think it is. We are eating at this buffet until friend 2 and his girlfriend get here. We are in line and the food ladies say today is special, the menu is all candy. So I fill my plate up with all this mexican candy. Then we stand to the side and eat it, then get back in line and get more candy, then we see friend 2 and his girlfriend and walk over to the neon wall they are at. The girl comes out the bathroom, and then friend 2 comes out the bathroom, and we sit down at this low ass table to eat our candy together, and then friend 2's girlfriend apologizes for them being late, she says that friend 2 was in the hospital because his penis could shoot sperm. Me and friend 1 get bug eyed, and then friend 2 gets up all pissed and stomps off because he didn't want people to know. We're really surprised he got so mad, that wasn't his personality. His girlfriend runs off after him and we decide it best we stay away because he is embarrassed.

Starts in the mall again but different area. I'm with my sister and my grandma and grandpa, this authoritative woman is talking to us and giving us directives, she said we need to go into do something but come immediately back to state the results. But when we go into the empty powerless mall we go into a store together and instantly begin looting. everyone separates within the same stores and grabs stuff and shoves it in their pockets. I'm stealing shoes, my sister stealing scarves, my grandpa stealing watches but he seems against it a little, and my grandma is stealing the gummy candies in a candy glass thing. I go with my grandma to get gummy candy with her but then this metal wall drops and almost locks us in, I just watch it happen and see my grandpa yell for her to get out and her yell that it's stuck but then my grandpa just lifts it up a little like its a curtain and she goes under and out. Then we all realize we can get in trouble for what we were doing and this woman security guard comes and tells us all to get against the wall to check if we took anything, while she is distracted with my family I sneak away because she never saw me, then when she's done checking them I sneak back into the group and the woman asks me if she checked me and I said yes. then we are sitting against a wall awaiting for the woman from before to come and tell us something. I realize something is in my back pocket, I take it out and see that it's some sort of voice recording device one like Ive never seen before. I show it to my family but not my grandpa, they look fearful because we realize the woman has been listening to us and testing us if we've stolen, so I mess with the device thinking I should record over all that was recorded, but the controls and button were so complicated, and there were so many buttons on the front, back, and sides. Two pairs of each button but looked different, finally when I realized how to re-record somewhat, the woman burst in and tried to get it from me so I couldn't delete her evidence, she wrestled me on the ground trying to retrieve it from my grasp but I managed to get away and I ejected the tape because i couldn't re-record fast enough and i found a trash can that has fire in it and I threw the recording device into it and I threw the tape into it and it melted and the woman just fell to her knees, then I awoke.

I'm in a mall with two people, some man and some woman. I see people being cleared out of the mall and everyone is panicking. Then the entire power grid goes down, and everyone is out of the building, but a security guard is skimming the area for people, me and the guy and girl decide to hide for some reason, we don't really have a plan, we just instinctively hide. Then we hear all the door getting locked up. The man walks off into a nearby store, and the girl and I start walking and you can see these victorian dresses in nearly all of the stores windows. She's swooning over different one's, I don;t care but point one out to her anyways, then she asks me to go get it for her, I tell her to go get it herself so she does. Then I feel a wall hit me from behind and I turn around and realize it's the end of the mall. I become overwhelmed with panic that it's almost too late and that I was supposed to grab something but I don't like anything there so I grab what looks like a black button up but when I turn it around it turns into a dress so I through it down and feel time counting down and I grab for this shirt up high but some man blocks me and stops me, and then we run but they get away without me and I'm stuck in a dark store.

I'm in a mall, I walk up to this store, it is as if it is the only store that represents current trends. It represents what the "follow the leader" youth are at the moment I feel. I feel so compelled to go to this store every day, and I enter and quietly go to the back where no one is. I avoid the groups in the store. I dig through the clothes, and I dig through the backpacks, and other accessories, but just as the other times I find nothing. Nothing resonates with me. So I quietly try to exit the store without the groups, or the worker seeing me with which might spark an unwanted conversation. I come back at I assume is the next day, I go to the back of the store to a place unoccupied, I dig through all the stuff, the fads have changed since the last time, it always changed, yet I find nothing. I try to exit the store unnoticed, but the worker stops me and comments on how I come in everyday, dig through stuff, then leave. I tell him that I come in with hopes of finding something everyday, but, then he finishes my sentence "but find nothing.", Some girl who was listening starts talking, I don't hear any of the words, but I begin to follow her and just leave the worker. I hate how she keeps talking, but doesn't make eye contact with me and I have to push through people to keep up with her, then I realize we are out of the store, then I can understand her words and she says "how old are you?", I tell her "22", then she sighs and says "it's a shame you're too old.", then she begins to walk again, I get frustrated and ask her "too old for what?", then she just kind of ends our conversation by smiling at me then walking away, but I keep following her from behind, then I wake up.

I'm in a mall in front of an elevator, I see a woman exit the elevator, she works their I think she is security or something, I want to go the the third floor that I think is employees only because I think there is free stuff up there, so I get into the elevator and hit the third level button. When the doors open I see it is full of customers and workers spraying perfume on them trying to get them to buy it, I realize I was wrong and that either they don't have a secret floor, or that the secret floor is floor 4 or maybe the basement, but I walk in the floor anyways, I go through all the people, a big tall girl stops me and tells me to go with her, I think she wants to show me perfume, I go with her, she sprays me with perfume, but then suddenly we are sitting at her desk and she turned into a small guy, he is giving me a psychiatry session, but he's telling me stuff he shouldn't know so I pull my hand away from him and almost run but for some reason I sit down again and the guy has turned into a different girl, she tells me that my hand writing is exactly like my dads and she shows me and says it's wrong, I'll turn out like him and that you can't use that many capitols. I start looking at this clock on the wall trying to figure out how long I've been sitting there, but I can't add it up, and the girl is trying to distract me from it because she wants to keep wasting my time..

I'm at the mall just looking around at the stores, I see a manikin wearing this jacket. It looks what a ninja would wear at first, so I take it off the manikin to try it on but then I realized it changed into an ugly jacket with 'socal' stuff all over it, so I try to take it off but I struggle trying, it's like trying to get heavy wet clothes off of you that suction to the body. I keep trying, while walking to the mall directory, then I see the girl I've been in love with for years. We make eye contact, and then I panic because I'm wearing this obnoxious jacket, so I hide behind the mall directory desperately pulling at it, I get it to where only one sleeve is latching to me, then I see her walking away but looking at me with smile because she knew I was trying to get the jacket off and all I can do is smile back. Then the scene changes to my old middle school, I'm sitting up against the water fountain brick wall because I know she's behind it sitting against the building wall, and I'm exhilarated by the feeling of her presence. This makes me late for changing in the locker room for p.e. I realize this and jump up & run into the locker room, I go to where I usually get dressed, but two students are there giving me smug looks, so I walk to where my friends are and tell them if they can help me. One of my friends run to the coach in the locker room office and I see them talking. Then my friend runs back holding stuff & hands it to me, it's a loaner lock, and loaner p.e. clothes. On the lock on the back is a white sticker with a number written in sharpie, it says 88, so I use it on the locker 888 that is by my friends, I get dressed, people & my friends already when outside for p.e. I lock my clothes into the locker, then I realize I have no where to put my backpack and I don't trust people to not steal it or anything inside it, so I look around for what to do with it, then I notice an open locker just to the right of mine it is only slightly larger than mine so I jam my backpack in it then slam the locker door shut and run outside.