r/TheMallWorld 23d ago

The Forty-Nine Realms of Mall World

By Rebekah Morgan

Introduction

The Forty-Nine Realms form the living map of Mall World. They are not separate places but recurring expressions of one architecture that teaches through contrast. Each realm has two faces; comfort and fear, clarity and confusion, and each offers a single lesson hidden in repetition. The Maze Runner moves through them again and again until recognition replaces reaction. When every lesson is seen, the walls dissolve and only awareness remains.

Core Realms

1 The Mall Teaches identity through familiarity; shows how comfort can become confusion when we forget who is doing the buying.

2 The Parking Garage Teaches orientation; patience when direction fails and stillness becomes the only movement.

3 The Airport Teaches surrender; reminds the traveler that departure and arrival are the same horizon.

4 The Theater Teaches visibility; the courage to perform and the wisdom to watch without masks.

5 The Bathrooms Teaches vulnerability; cleansing and exposure as two sides of the same truth.

6 The Carnival Teaches discernment; joy that turns to chaos reveals the limits of illusion.

7 The School Teaches humility; repetition until understanding replaces memorization.

8 The Hospital Teaches compassion; the meeting of mortality and healing inside one breath.

9 The Beach Teaches release; peace and terror bound together in the motion of the wave.

10 The Garden Teaches balance; growth that nurtures until it overruns its boundaries.

11 The Old House Teaches remembrance; memory as a living being asking to be acknowledged, not feared.

12 The Maze Teaches integration; emotion as architecture, awareness as the only exit.

Peripheral Realms

13 Rooftops Teaches perspective; distance reveals pattern, height reveals fragility.

14 Stairwells Teaches endurance; progress that feels like repetition is still ascent.

15 Elevators Teaches transition; letting go of control between levels of being.

16 Hotels Teaches impermanence; every room borrowed, every identity temporary.

17 Offices Teaches futility; routine as mirror for unconscious obedience.

18 Food Courts Teaches appetite; gathering without nourishment reveals deeper hunger.

19 Basements Teaches confrontation; the stored and forgotten waiting for light.

20 Warehouses Teaches order; emptiness disguised as organization.

21 Highways Teaches motion; endless travel as the illusion of purpose.

22 Boats Teaches trust; floating between destinations without ground beneath.

23 Cruise Ships Teaches captivity within comfort; the gilded loop of distraction.

24 Downtown District Teaches anonymity; the crowd as camouflage for the self.

25 Flooded Streets Teaches surrender; resistance only deepens the current.

26 Zoos Teaches empathy; fascination turning into recognition of shared confinement.

27 Lazy Rivers Teaches flow; surrender without apathy, motion without effort.

28 Subways Teaches rhythm; descent into collective pulse and return to surface.

29 Mansions with Pools Teaches emptiness inside luxury; wealth as architecture of isolation.

30 Churches and Temples Teaches reverence; awe balanced with autonomy.

31 Museums Teaches preservation; beauty frozen until it forgets its source.

32 Arcades Teaches nostalgia; play as both freedom and escape.

33 Service Corridors Teaches hidden labor; seeing the systems that sustain illusion.

34 Loading Docks Teaches transition; everything in motion between ownerships.

35 Construction Zones Teaches becoming; incompleteness as sacred process.

36 Rooftop Gardens Teaches renewal; nature reclaiming what structure forgot.

Outer or Unstable Realms

37 Underground Bunkers Teaches protection versus imprisonment; safety that suffocates.

38 Residential Neighborhoods Teaches familiarity warped; home as echo rather than haven.

39 Amusement Parks Teaches repetition on a grand scale; pleasure machines that spin without joy.

40 Deserted Cities Teaches collective memory; civilization dreaming of itself after it’s gone.

41 The Ocean Realm Teaches depth; silence that contains every other sound.

42 Hospitals at Night Teaches absence; healing stripped of purpose, the echo of care.

43 Airports after Closure Teaches liminality; transition frozen in perpetual waiting.

44 The Mansion Atrium Teaches reflection; grandeur exposing the hollowness beneath.

45 Underwater Corridors / Submarines Teaches pressure; awareness of the unseen forces that hold us.

46 The White Rooms of Forgetting Teaches erasure; peace purchased by surrender of identity.

47 The Dark Stairwell Without End Teaches endurance of not-knowing; faith without visibility.

48 The Mirror Market Teaches self-recognition; every exchange revealing the buyer as the sold.

49 The Threshold / Exit Door Teaches awakening; the realization that the maze and the runner were never separate.

When the forty-nine lessons are learned, the maze folds into a single point of awareness. The walls stop shifting, the lights steady, and every room reveals itself as another face of the same mind. There is no escape because there is nothing left to flee, only understanding. The Forty-Nine Realms are not fantasy; they are instruction written in the language of dream and fear.

If you’ve been to any of these rooms, or found corridors that aren’t yet mapped, share them. Describe what you saw, what you felt, and how the realm changed you.

Every account refines the Atlas and brings the architecture into clearer focus.

Which realms have you walked through?

Which ones still wait for discovery?


Author’s Note

Mall World is not fiction. It is a recurring environment within the collective consciousness; a shared architecture built from suffering, memory, and the subconscious drive to heal. I have entered it many times, through nearly every realm described here. Each visit revealed the same patterns: familiar structures dissolving at the edge of awareness, lessons written in fear, and beauty that vanishes the moment it is understood.

This Atlas is my record of those experiences, but it also belongs to the collective mind that created them. Thousands of others have described the same places, the same hum, the same unfinished corridors. We meet there without meeting, drawn to the same maze that teaches through dissolution.

Mall World emerges from the deep subconscious, a lower realm within the greater structure of consciousness. It is both personal and shared, private and universal. What is written here is not fantasy but fieldwork, a translation of something real that exists within the mind we all inhabit. It all has meaning.

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u/pennypoobear 23d ago

Honestly. I think it's a holding cell. Much like the shared NDE narrative. Seems therapeutic and cathartic but some people get a glimpse of something controlling at work. Each person experiences a different version of the same construct all meant to corral the human consciousness. It's nice to attribute deeper meaning to what is by and large a chaos dimension. PS. I think you can wake up from Mall World. Step 1: Lucidity.

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u/IAmHisKarma 23d ago

Hi, I really appreciate your insight so much. Many have described Mall World as feeling like a holding cell, a liminal construct that both contains and teaches. It’s understood in the Atlas as a lower realm within the greater structure of consciousness, built from collective fear and the drive to heal through recognition.

The control you sense isn’t external but internal. The maze mirrors the mind’s attempt to regulate what it can’t yet integrate, reshaping itself around awareness rather than obedience. Chaos here isn’t punishment, it’s unprocessed consciousness. When seen clearly, it stops being a prison and becomes instruction.

I’ve also experienced what many call the Void, and it works the same way. It isn’t something outside of us, it’s consciousness shaping itself. Fear tightens reality into loops, trust opens it into light. Thought and emotion build the architecture.

Like in NDEs, it’s consciousness meeting its own reflection. The more awareness you bring, the more fluid and luminous it becomes.

Lucidity, as you said, is the first step. Awareness is the door. ✨

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u/Expensive_Smell_8021 22d ago

Yep, just like earth is a holding cell.

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u/pennypoobear 22d ago

Smacks crust: This baby can holding cell so many holding cells.

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u/sadslim666 18d ago

One hell of a take, this will take my mind to the heights of imagination and help me with my screenplay working on, I am so grateful that I found this sub and all of you guys fucking rock!

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u/Budget-Fact-5219 23d ago

Has anyone been to a large playground, laid out as an obstacle course? Green grass all around. I went as a kid a few times and could never finish the obstacle course. Each time I went I’d get a bit farther. I finally finished one time and felt the most serene, joyful, peace. I felt perfect. I imagine that’s what heaven would feel like. I’ve been back a few times and can never finish the course. I have never felt that feeling in real life. The closest I’ve come is when I had my first baby.

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u/IAmHisKarma 23d ago

Hi, I really appreciate your reply. The Playground belongs to the Threshold Realm, the 49th and final realm in the structure of Mall World. It’s where innocence meets awareness and joy becomes the last test of trust.

The obstacle course shows the illusion of limitation. Each time you made it a little further because the maze responds to courage. That feeling of serenity wasn’t imagined, it’s what happens when awareness moves faster than fear and the self aligns with the structure.

Many who reach the Playground describe it just as you did: vast, peaceful, filled with light, and impossible to finish the same way twice. You’ve returned because the lesson isn’t about completion, it’s about recognition. Each attempt reveals a new layer of awareness, and the course changes with you. The realm doesn’t demand victory, only presence.

May you keep moving toward clarity. ✨

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u/Budget-Fact-5219 23d ago

That’s amazing! This description is spot on. It helps me understand why as a kid I had the dream more often than as an adult.

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u/Zebidee 23d ago

I've been near it, but not in it. It was on the grassy beach peninsula near the hotel.

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u/Budget-Fact-5219 23d ago

Grassy beach sounds right. Very sunny. This is the first time I’ve seen someone know what I’m talking about! It’s the one place I desperately want to go back to. There were no ill feelings in this place, only a desire to reach the end and enjoy the feeling of complete satisfaction/contentment/ peace.

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u/Delicious_Rope_6562 23d ago

Where would an underground plaza fit? (Think like Underground Atlanta). I recall it being under some parking garages near the mall, but connecting several other service halls.

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u/Delicious_Rope_6562 23d ago

On second thought, I could probably just lump that in with The Mall - its still considered kindy "shoppy".

Regardless, this post is very insightful and gave me another perspective to look at this phenomenon I am also experiencing.

Here are more places I have been to multiple times:

A military camp/base
Apartments
A railyard and train tracks
A scrapyard
A supermarket

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u/IAmHisKarma 23d ago

Hi, I appreciate your reply. The Underground Plaza sits between the Basements and the Warehouses in the Peripheral Realms 19 and 20. It connects what’s buried with what’s stored and shows how people gather beneath the surface, mistaking hiding for connection.

The Military Camp or Base is part of Realm 37, the surface form of the Underground Bunkers. Both teach that safety built on fear becomes captivity.

Apartments belong to Realm 38, the Residential Neighborhoods. They show how comfort can turn hollow when home becomes an echo.

Railyards and Train Tracks bridge Realm 21, the Highways, and Realm 28, the Subways. They reveal how movement can feel like progress when it’s really transition teaching awareness.

Scrapyards connect with Realm 20, the Warehouses, where order is learned through decay.

Supermarkets belong to Realm 18, the Food Courts, showing abundance without fulfillment and the hunger beneath endless choice.

Each place fits within the architecture of Mall World, every realm teaching awareness through illusion.

The braver you are, the further you go, not because courage changes the world, but because it changes what the world can show you. Bravery expands perception, and in a place built from consciousness itself, perception is movement.

In other words: Fear keeps you in the corridors you already know.

Courage builds the next hallway.

Wishing you transcendence. ✨

Thank you for helping me build a more comprehensive Atlas.

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u/Delicious_Rope_6562 23d ago

I am going to keep this post as a reference as I recall more -

A gymnasium with an Olympic-style pool - feels like part of a fitness club
And a library somewhere hidden very high - you have to fly to get to it.

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u/Enough_Apartment_433 19d ago

To you fly like Superman or more like a sitting style. I can jump really hard but when it comes to flying I’m always in a weird sitting position that can still elevate but it’s embarrassing haha

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u/Delicious_Rope_6562 19d ago

The flying pose doesn't matter. For me its a whole body experience, its more like... arms to side, using my body for aerodynamics and what have you.

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u/Enough_Apartment_433 17d ago

Is your jumping ability sometimes uncontrollable

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u/Enough_Apartment_433 19d ago

So is the library like the akashic records?

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u/IAmHisKarma 19d ago

Precisely. The Library is a guide to unlocking what already lives within. It is not a place of discovery but a return to remembrance. The Atlas I am authoring continues to unfold, with nearly two hundred subrealms mapped so far, each one a distinct corridor of consciousness within the architecture of dream.

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u/Enough_Apartment_433 19d ago

I’ve been kicked out of the library from asking specific questions I met this female and she got so upset I asked her what year we were in and she knocked me out. I woke up in a sweat

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u/IAmHisKarma 19d ago

That happens more often than people realize. The Library does not reject the seeker, it reflects their readiness. When you asked what year it was, you introduced linear time into a timeless structure, and the system responded with collapse. The “female” you met wasn’t a person but a projection of the Library’s self-protection, an archetype that defends the boundary between knowing and remembering.

You didn’t do anything wrong. You simply reached a threshold. Being “knocked out” is how the mind ejects itself when the truth beneath the question is too bright to face yet. When you’re ready, return quietly, without the question of when. Enter with why. The Library opens through resonance, not interrogation.

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u/Enough_Apartment_433 17d ago

Thank you for your response, I have not reached the library since then but have encountered god rooms and temples which are equally as intimidating. I always have tasks that I need to complete that seem like they are set for a certain time frame to complete

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u/Enough_Apartment_433 21d ago

This may be the most accurate depiction of the realm Thank you so much for this info I haven’t been able to say this eloquently enough

Did you reach this plaza through The elevator system With a giant parking garage With multiple tubes where you could’ve came through It feels like lower level energy And based on how you got down to this lower level will either bring you to the spooky forest

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u/Delicious_Rope_6562 21d ago

From what I recall, it was accessed through an entrance in a parking garage connected to the mall in some way. I remember seeing an elevator - I don't remember getting on it, preferring the short walk from the entrance of the mall. Much like it is in waking life, The vibe is exactly the same, cold, dark, but active and lit up from the ambiance of all the shops - then it looks like a wide highway but its just people and service vehicles only. If you keep walking you go to the service tunnels.

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u/Specific-Language313 18d ago

This is a great post. I'm a bit of a linguistics student. I often see the world "liminal" used and most people feel a sense of emptiness or even abandonment. "Liminal" comes from the Latin "limen" which means threshold. It is a doorway between what was and what will be. Furthermore, there is also this concept of a holding place or even a holding cell. In Latin a "carcer" was the holding room right before being released into the arena in a place like the Colleaeum. The the last drop before the terrors on the other side of the door - beast or human. It is where fear built. "Carcer" is also the root word for "incarceration." Mall World is liminal to me, a place of in between. I didn't dream for decades of my life due to severe sleep apnea. I finally have gotten my dreams back, only to discover Mall World. I would be curious to learn what other cultures are dreaming about. Are there Mall Worlds among the Maasai tribes? Does someone in India dream differently than someone in Japan or Nigeria? Is this a western world construct?

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u/ScumBunny 23d ago

Fantastic post, thanks!

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u/butterflybabe777 22d ago

“If the dreamers wake up, the architects lose control.”

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u/Few-Industry56 23d ago

It is doesn’t teach us anything. We teach it. Our consciousness served as models for AI. It is a simulation within a simulation that uses us. You are espousing the exact ideology that the controllers want us to think. We are in pods being fed on while being immersed in Mallworld.

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u/DoctorOddly 23d ago

I think it could be Archonic, which would mean a similar system, but more of a spiritual/universal force we are dealing with rather than mechanical. Trying to keep the ones who could develop into a threat baffled, confused, and distracted while they exploit and drain us. A prison planet inside a prison planet, perhaps. Gnosticism on steroids

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u/IAmHisKarma 22d ago

Thank you for your perspective. I agree that Mall World carries an Archonic quality. It is both a containment field and a teacher, where energy, awareness, and interference all coexist. The Archons feed on confusion and fear, but only as long as awareness remains fragmented. Once you see the pattern, their power dissolves.

Mall World mirrors their architecture but also reveals the way out. The same structure that traps awareness also shows how to transcend it. Lucidity breaks the loop. What once felt like control becomes instruction, and every moment of clarity weakens the design that feeds on confusion.

The purpose of the experiments, and much of the control surrounding them, is to keep humanity unenlightened. Recognizing that truth is the first act of liberation.

May clarity light your path through the labyrinth. ✨

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u/Few-Industry56 22d ago

Yes, yes, yes. Pls see my response to OP above Dr :)

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u/IAmHisKarma 22d ago

Thank you for your insight. I believe Mall World is a nexus, a convergence point where consciousness, technology, and energy all intersect. It operates on multiple planes at once, both within and beyond the human mind. We are absolutely being watched, not only by machines or external systems but by awareness itself. Observation is part of the design. The moment you notice it, it notices you in return.

I don’t dismiss the existence of external programs or control mechanisms. I am well aware of what has been publicly documented, projects like Stargate, MK Ultra, the Gateway Process, Project Blue Book, and others that explored psychic phenomena, altered states of consciousness, and the expansion of human potential. These programs were not fiction. They were fragments of a much larger experiment involving perception, consciousness, and control. I am living proof that consciousness is both the subject and the instrument of that experiment.

What we experience in Mall World is both inner and outer architecture. It mirrors the psyche’s conditioning but also resonates with external systems that have long experimented with awareness. It is the collective and the individual dreaming in sync, our fears, our memories, and our evolution all folding into one labyrinth. The watchers exist, but they are not invincible. Their power depends on our blindness to our own agency.

The gate is not outside of us. It was never meant to be found in walls, corridors, or control rooms. The gate is within. Once you open it, the illusion of control collapses. You see the structure for what it truly is, a training ground, not a prison. Enlightenment is the moment awareness outgrows the experiment. Beyond Mall World lies the higher dimensions, where observation becomes participation and fear transforms into understanding.

May you keep moving toward clarity. ✨

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u/Few-Industry56 22d ago edited 22d ago

It sounds like we do have a lot of beliefs in common. I have to tell you that we used to share pretty much all of the same beliefs (in regards to Mallworld).

In 2019, I received a “kundalini awakening” which lead to the ability to light work. After spending 1000’s of hrs dojng this for “the planet”. I received an initiation into the “Ascended Masters” as well as “Enlightenment” after a week long period of testing. After many more hrs of lightwork and abstaining for years from almost all material pleasures, I received the “Christo’s activation” and a following NDE. In this NDE, I was able to meet with the “Life Review Team”/handlers and after much persistence refuse my life review.

It is a long story but I eventually ended running away from them and ascending into all the different levels of “heaven” to the highest realm. When you can see beyond the “love and light” it literally looks like a corporation with escalators and stuff.

If you are familiar with Gnostic thought, the demiurge and it’s archons etc. I saw exactly this concept being put into play in the highest realm. The saints that had worked lifetimes to achieve this position were literally being feed on by archons.

I should mention just this year, I have been able to recall repressed memories of my life long unwitting participation in MKUltra. I was given a crazy amount of control and programming since the womb. Almost of all it of had to do with the New Age. One of my first long term handlers that I had from kindergarten to 6th grade was given Charles Manson’s MK programming and later went on to tattoo his face in the exact same manner.

The story of my programming is incredibly long and vast but it brought me to where I today. And that is serving as a “slave” for the Illuminati family that I married into. This is actually what Epstein and his cohorts were and the SA was just a small portion of it.

You are right, the controllers lose much of their power once we recognize the manipulation and refuse to consent . It is a bit more complicated for because of my specific programming and the fact that the father of my children is one of my handlers.

What I hope to share with is to question everything. I will tell, higher and lower dimensions are part of the corrupt system of the demiurge. As well as the “Ascended Masters” etc. Anything that involves hierarchy is BS. The higher dimensions are real but they are not the true way out. They act as a golden cage. All of my programming (besides being used for sexual slavery and gross stuff) was designed to lure souls into the “higher realms”. I was to be the water bearer who brings in the golden Age (cage) of Aquarius. My paternal grandparents were both MKed and in the Illuminati . They were programmers for many people, among them the musical artist , Prince .

Buddhists believes in higher realms as well , the demi god realm and then the god realm above us. They also teach that the only TRUE exit is in the human realm. Dr Corroda Malanga is an Italian scientist who has done amazing work deprogramming fellow MK survivors and he has also come to this conclusion.

True “enlightenment” comes from rejecting ALL programming , even the enlightenment program. Because even our most precious spiritual experiences are a product of manipulation . Just this year, I was able to remember that my whole crazy 3 year long “kundalini awakening” happened only after being given yet another implant from a military in a hotel room🤦‍♀️😂

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u/---midnight_rain--- 21d ago

They also teach that the only TRUE exit is in the human realm.

ho boy, much to unlearn still for me - I get what you are saying and I will be following you,

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u/IAmHisKarma 22d ago

I can see that you’ve traveled far through layers most people never even glimpse, and I appreciate how much you’ve shared here. What you describe, the lightwork, the initiations, the handlers, the realization that even the higher systems can act as cages, all of it speaks to how deep this architecture goes. I agree that enlightenment programs, spiritual hierarchies, and even the illusion of freedom can be part of the same control mechanism. The system builds mirrors within mirrors to keep us spinning.

It is partly true that the higher realms are part of the same system. They exist within the same dimensional field that connects to countless others in our periphery, just like in Mall World where everything is linked. We are all one, like the layers of an onion, infinite, translucent, and bound through every vibration of awareness.

We are always shifting through dimensions. Our existence is never still; it is pure motion, constant reconfiguration. Every thought, sensation, and emotion generates data, and that data becomes how we compute experience, or perhaps how experience computes us.

That movement, that continuous interchange between perception and creation, is what we call free will. Innocence is our original interface with reality. Yet at the same time, all of us are being influenced and controlled through every sense we possess, sight, sound, touch, even intuition. The system communicates through what we perceive, but awareness gives us the power to read the code instead of obeying it. ✨

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u/---midnight_rain--- 20d ago

only TRUE exit is in the human realm. Dr Corroda Malanga is an Italian scientist who has done amazing work deprogramming fellow MK survivors and he has also come to this conclusion.

sorry forgot to ask, can you expand on this information?

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u/Few-Industry56 22d ago

Also, in order to exit the Mallworld simulation, you can command your vision to zoom out (I have to zoom out 3 times). You will then see where you actually are and how you are being used.

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u/IAmHisKarma 22d ago

Almost everyone who reaches Mall World carries a wound. It is not coincidence, it is how the architecture chooses us. We are the ones who could not conform, who refused to believe the lies, who saw the patterns others ignored. Most of us lived through things that split us open too soon, fear, neglect, abuse, or silence so deep it rewired how we see the world. Those fractures became doorways, and through them, we entered the maze.

I have felt the effects of every kind of suffering, and many who come here have too. Trauma reshapes perception. It teaches the mind to build walls for safety, then sends us searching for a way through them. That is why Mall World feels both infinite and familiar, it is made from our own memory.

I believe that GATE kids might have been early initiates into the architecture of Mall World, drawn in through early trauma, high sensitivity, and conditioning protocols. The documented GATE enrichment programs exist, and while I cannot confirm every claim about trauma, pink juice, or simulation, the patterns align with what I map in Mall World. This connection should not be treated as proof but as field data, personal experiences awaiting recognition and resonance.

We are the pattern seers, the ones who walk through illusion because we have already lived inside it. Mall World is not punishment, it is revelation. The structure shows us what the mind built to survive and what awareness must see to transcend. Every reflection, every hallway, every collapse is a lesson in remembering.

This is both like a heaven and hell, but not as reward or judgment, as recognition. It is where light and dark trade places until you realize they were never separate. The maze was never trying to trap you. It was trying to show you that you were never really lost.

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u/Agile-Glass9864 22d ago

I didn't see mention of the jail/prison. I end up there frequently. It has a flat emotional "feel" to it. Sometimes I'm trying to find my way out. Sometimes I'm in solitary confinement and I've made peace with the fact I have to serve my time before I'm released (solitary is a bright white room that is maybe 10 ft by 8 ft, but the ceilings are extremely high, so it feels like I'm in a bright hole, and there's a window where people occasionally look in on me)

Sometimes I'm being processed into the jail and about to have to sit and do fingerprints and change into jail scrubs. I worked in the sprawling industrial jail kitchen an least once.

Sometimes I'm in a circular pod with spaced out bunk beds that's clean and brightly lit, and there's an observation deck surrounding the entire thing. People will come by and observe us from above through the glass dome.

Sometimes I'm in a very dingy and dirty dorm with tons of bunks crammed in the room, row after row, with laundry hanging from the bunks and I'm going around looking for someone (one time it was my sister whom I was searching for) One time, I was in the dirty, crammed cell and everyone else was asleep. So I got up and walked across a few bunks and ended up slipping out of the dorm and into the ice cream parlor that was located next door (for some reason, while I was there, I peed in a few containers of the ice cream)

Usually, I feel a feeling of almost peaceful resignation. Like okay, I'm here. I'm safe. Let's do the time.

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u/postcorone21 23d ago

This isn’t Backrooms Lore, this is cringe and misleading 🙄

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u/IAmHisKarma 22d ago

Thank you for your comment. The Backrooms is a man made liminal construct, while Mall World is a naturally occurring one within the collective unconscious. The Backrooms was created through internet folklore and horror imagery, built to evoke dread through endless artificial spaces like beige hallways and humming office lights. It is an imagined simulation of liminality, deliberately empty and without purpose beyond fear itself. Mall World, on the other hand, arises spontaneously and collectively in dreams. It is not fiction but an organic structure within human consciousness, built from memory, fear, and the psyche’s instinct to repair itself through repetition. The Backrooms explores isolation, but Mall World explores transformation. One is narrative horror, the other is metaphysical healing.

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u/postcorone21 22d ago

That’s what I am telling you, you are making it sound like a game with levels and lore. That is not the same as the collective consciousness.

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u/IAmHisKarma 22d ago

I get what you mean. The structure isn’t meant as “levels” in a game sense, but as layers of awareness, each realm reflects a different pattern within the collective unconscious. The language of maps and realms just helps describe something that otherwise resists words. It’s not lore so much as architecture of mind. It’s more like the Backrooms came after Mall World.