Hello Thistle:
I've analyzed thousands of my own dreams, and found that they often contain messages from our friends/guides in the spirit World. Going by the symbology I've received, I come up with the following.
The department store = the physical World, materialism
The cash registers = checking out of the physical World and moving on to the World of spirit
Your family's lack of emotion = quite often while in this World people don't find the emotion we really want, which is divine love
The department store window = the barrier between the physical World and the spirit World
Your mother being outside = she is in the World of spirit
Your mother not showing a lot emotion = It is time to stop grieving for your loss and let go of your anger, so your mother can move on with her life of divine love in the World of spirit. You will meet her again when it is your time to move on to the World of spirit.
thistle wrote on May 14th, 2008 at 10:10pm:About a month after my mother died I had a dream that my whole family had gathered in a department store. It was the same family members that used to celebrate holidays together at my mom and dad's house for many years. Although I didn't see everybody specifically, I knew we were all together. We were mingling with each other on the side of the checkout stands where you go before you have paid. Nobody seemed to be showing any particular emotion of sadness or even joy. We were all just quietly talking to one another. I looked past the checkout stands and through the big windows at the front of the store. I saw my mother was standing outside looking in through the windows at the rest of us. She didn't have any particular emotion on her face either. She was just watching all of us from the outside. I felt kind of sad that she was outside by herself.