Forrest

In the Language of Mind, a forest is not wilderness or escape — it is existence within your own subconscious mind. Look at its form and function: trees are living things rooted deep in the earth, and in this language earth is the substance of the subconscious while trees are thoughts driven down into it. A forest, then, is a dense collection of those deeply rooted thoughts — an entire region of your inner self, grown thick. So when you wander into a forest, your subconscious is showing you that you have stepped inside it, into the soil where your beliefs live and grow. Examine where in your waking life you feel surrounded by your own depths — beautiful and alive, or tangled and easy to get lost in.

Read the variations the way you'd read the woods themselves. A sunlit forest with a clear path = a subconscious you can navigate, illumined by awareness; a dark, overgrown tangle where you lose your way = inner thoughts grown wild and unexamined, calling for the light of attention. Notice too what walks there with you — the animal crossing your path is a habit of mind, the water threading through is the conscious experience flowing under all of it. That is one symbol, read clean; the rest of the dream is still speaking. Your subconscious talks to you every night in this exact language, and CHITTA is simply where you learn to read the rest of the sentence. Go within, or go without.