One Up Seeker

1. Earlier in this dream I was a marine that had been helping out a lady put up some sort of advertising poster. She grew frustrated with me when I asked her where to put it up multiple times, and she would change her mind and where she wanted the poster to be several times. At this point in the dream I felt like I was a very inadequate marine, and this woman made me doubt my ability as one. I ended up just ditching her. During this entire time I was in what looked to be the stock room of some sort of huge building. The walls were either concrete or some sort of dull metal with little or no shine to it. The ground was just plain concrete but it was dirty. Overall this entire stock room I was in, along with a few other people, a marine, and the lady I mentioned earlier, was generally really empty.
At this point I walk to the back of this stock room where a metal door is lifted up, sort mimicking a garage door. I walk outside and I see many people just walking around and socializing with others. My friend Zion is currently standing right in front of me. Suddenly I get this weird feeling, and it's as if I have decided to become lucid. Nonetheless I am now lucid and highly self aware. I scope out my surroundings with my attention and see that there is a mall not far ahead of me. "What do I want to do right now?" I think to myself(I had no knowledge that the competition had started tonight so I wasn't competition-goal oriented). A sudden realization comes to me, reminding me that I can do anything now as long as I know that I can do it. "I can bring back Orion Jay; it's definitely been a while" I think to myself once more. Just standing where I am, I know and expect myself to become Orion Jay.
With that I look at my hands and arms and see what looks to be black streaks of blood rushing through my arms. Within seconds I can see that my entire body is now "in suit", but I have only achieved the rough draft version of this suit because I wasn't focused on the full version of it while manifesting it. I have no idea if my face is covered as there is no mirror near me and I'm not concerned about it enough to touch my face. I get an urge within me to fly, but I realize that if I do so I will give away my identity and everyone around me will realize that I am the dreamer(I am creating a story line where the prime base of it at first is that no one knows I am the dreamer). I then start walking through the crowds of people in front of me and approach the mall. "A will be in there somewhere" I told myself, but without determination.
I come up to one of the entrances of the mall, and the one I come up to is part of a store called Kay Jewelers(odd that a jewelry selling place has an entire store to itself). As I walk inside I realize that I have no idea where to start my search for A, but I decide to just do what I do best: explore. In this store, the floor is covered in a soft green carpet and the walls are blue. I walk all the way to the front of the store where the inside of the mall is, and as I do so I pass many areas that are full of women's clothing. At one point, a lady walks into the store from behind me. She seems rather old in age, and she has a vape in her left hand. A store employee who also happened to be a female sees this lady and tells her, "Ma'am, you're not allowed to bring that into the store." I can see that this store employee is of Indian descent. Her statement is quite hypocritical as, in the desk that she is standing behind, she has her own vape laying out in the open.
I continue my way to the front of the store and I as get there I see that the entrance is completely blocked by not only tons of customers, but also a few employees as well. It seems that these customers are in a line waiting to check out, but the line isn't organized very well and they just look like they are all bunched up together. I walk towards these people and try to pass through them. As I do so, the people that I am passing through seem to squeeze me and suddenly I am unable to move. "What the fuck are these people doing?" I think to myself. "Excuse me, I'm just trying to get through" I say to them. Only feet away from me I can see out the entrance and inside the rest of the mall. Suddenly a store employee comes up to me and blocks my view. "You're not going anywhere" she says to me.
Now, if I was more self aware then this would have been no problem, but my awareness was rather low at the moment and I had also gotten highly distracted so now I was stuck. I lost lucidity. Sometime after this I ended up making it through the line of people and I go into the rest of the mall and I see A multiple times.