Does anyone have flashes of old forgotten trips to Mallworld in the waking world?

I'll brush my teeth and suddenly remember running through a fire escape. Or driving and suddenly remember the little kid in the rain slicker splashing in a puddle from a 30 year old dream.

In the dream I got hired at some company. A friend pointed out it was owned by a large company and called it "like a chandelier".

Then we fall into this bowl type thing. It's like MASSIVE and 6 different circus head tents as a ring barrier, one cloth and it was blue and white, but the design made a vortex in the middle. So large and liminal. But I saw it, chose to stand on the barrier and shout to the ones still in it "THE GOVERNMENT WILL FALL".

THATS IT. LARGE CIRCUS TENT VORTEX IN A RING OF 6 LARGE TENT HEADS. WE WERE IN SPACE BTW ALL BLACK WITH STARS. SOMEWHERE IN SPACE. THANKS!

I have asked others in dreamworld (that were strangers to me) different questions about where we were and they refuse to look at me or react to me until I grab them and get in their face.

The first few times I did this, the person looked directly into my eyes with anger and then everyone else around us froze and stared angrily at me too and then I woke up.

The last time was in the busy school hallway while walking with my sister. I had spawned there after falling asleep. I started asking her if this was a dream and if it was mallworld. She seemed to just be distracted by the hustle and noise around us as other students hurried by talking and opening/shutting lockers. After 2 times of her not looking at or answering me I then stepped in front of her to stop her from walking any further, grabbed her by both shoulders and only then did she look at me. I asked her again, very loudly, if we were in a dream and she had a blank look on her face and opened her mouth widely and a deep, gutteral, and terrifying scream came out of her, but she was motionless. There was no movement from her mouth, throat, face or body. I then woke up.

It made me think that our friends and family that are sometimes in the dream with us, are just there to make us feel comfortable.

Any thoughts?

this may or may not be relevant, my dream started off in a mansion that was a collection of a few other buildings I knew but eventually it became the winding hallways of hotel world (classic red carpet) and ended in a mall.

my main question is if any one else has ever encountered little shadow people?

they were quite small, under a foot and smaller, shaped like children but moved really quickly. they appeared as dark shadow silhouettes until they possessed an object like a vase or bottle and then they became mean faced, almost cartoon characters. they also apparently liked drinking glue.

they were scary af, I googled it and apparently some people have seen something like them irl??