DATE: October 20, 2025

I was with my family driving in our minivan along the town square (mentioned in other dreams) and there was this place that took up the spots of like 3 or 4 establishments that are present in real life. For some reason this wasn't too confusing. The buildings had basically all been gutted and hastily converted into essentially a marketplace but you are more incouraged to look around at stuff and not so much to buy things. The first one I went to was hosted by a military veteran, he wore his combat clothes (or what I though were combat clothes, I'm really not sure how all that works), and had a pretty lean build, and was in his late 30's or early 40's. He welcomed me in and the main stuff went down in this upper attic area. It was all flat roofed, but it was still a short enough ceiling to be a little uncomfortable (I'm like 5'10-5'11). He had build essentially a giant fort out of cardboard and tape with all these winding decorational bridges (bridges sized for a cat, although this was not explicitly conveyed). I was really impressed and looked around some. The I moved on to the neighboring establishment. It was ran by this stocky woman with light blue colored hair, visibly queer. I think the was also a veteran, but she did not at least take it so seriously as the other guy. She had a giant library of video games, old and new. It felt like I could have never looked at every single one. She had this weird psone that really only played these half-pirated discs that were all branded the same and they were stored in the consoles cache, and I liked to clear it before I used it and after to make everything "clean". I went down and as I got back in the minivan my mom was like "What do you say to them?" as if I'm not literally an adult now but I still went back in to the first guy and told him how great everything was. He asked "Did you get to see everything?" and I said something like "No, how could I, it was so huge!" which left him a little confused. We kept talking a bit and I mentioned some detail that he didn't have and it turned out I had gotten his setup confused from the other lady's setup. I tried to explain that I liked his aswell but it felt innaffective. I told him thanks and that I meant it, and I also said "Thank you for your service" and it was awkwardly silent after that, so I just left.