Weird dream from January 2022

I’m in the back room of my workplace a big Walmart sized store (not Walmart) with my partner, step sister, and a coworker I was friends with. Our coworker reminds us it’s time to go back to work and we all grown in response following him out. When we enter I notice there a ledge near the ceiling and a bridge going across the whole store to a door that customers can’t reach. I don’t remember how we got up there but we’re on the bridge above the store. It’s all dark in there. Right as my coworker goes to open the door I stop him and remind him “the clown” is in that part of the store. He tells me there’s nothing to worry about and enters the brightly lit area. We enter and go up a carpeted ramp that looks like it’s from a nursing home. There’s a lobby area at the top and a short hallway to a bathroom that is very dark. There’s a few antique dolls around the place and it smells like old perfume. The air is stuffy and I begin to go back up towards the door. The other three continue on discussing everything they need to grab. I can barely hear them as I struggle to breathe. The bathroom door opens and someone steps out, it’s the clown. I scream and run back out the door, my friends no where to be seen. I get halfway across the bridge and stop to breathe before I hear the door behind me click. It followed me out. And then I woke up. I’m not even scared of clowns so I have no idea what this was but it scared me when I woke up.