The dreams you have… what tags are you sleeping with, IPF, CE? Both?
When a number like 3 appears, see if it relates to the 3rd chakra. Does it relate to either the ability to connect to people, or to personal power or willpower. Especially when it’s a 3rd floor like this. You go up to the 3rd chakra, down to the 1st for food/survival/basic physical needs=1st chakra. In this dream it seems to relate to both connections with people and personal power. It even ties the two together, your dream does, and the 3rd chakra does.
You want to learn how to speak a language, a foreign language. Does connecting with people feel like you are trying to learn a foreign language? For any of us it could because on some level that is exactly what connections require. Every individual is a foreign entity with their own language in a way.
You want to get home where it’s safe, you want to find a safe place to be yourself, an empty supermarket where you can be beautiful without repercussions.
But people are a threat. In the store you can’t let them see you. The person you saw before you went home, you were in danger because you saw them. So there is a threat in people seeing you as you are (shirt off) or as beautiful (the dress). And there is a threat in some people/person knowing you’ve seen them. But why? There is this policeman, someone condemning and punishing intimate connections. Who is this? Your dad/some patriarchal figure? Or some part of yourself within? Or is it an aspect of society?
It takes you 3 turns to get home. Possibly one last hint. What does it take to be safe? You can’t run away from the need to learn the language of other people in order to be able to connect with them. You have to go to the 3rd floor in the end, or take the 3 turns. This foreign language is already in your head though right? Why don’t you access it and use it? Fear, the fears discussed above.
It ties together with personal power. You “can’t” reach the third floor. You “can’t” drive the car. You can’t make it happen. You can’t force understanding people to happen. But you can let it. Allow it. Because it’s already there in your mind. You can’t escape the policeman seeing you, you can’t escape the shoppers seeing you. But the car takes you somewhere safe, through the 3 turns, to where your language to understand others is already there.