hugging

In the Language of Mind, hugging is acceptance and integration — the drawing-close of one aspect of yourself to another. Look at its form and function: a hug is the act of wrapping your arms around someone and pulling them in until there is no distance left. Function is union — you take what was separate and hold it as part of you. And since every figure in a dream is an aspect of the dreamer, never an outside person, hugging is your mind embracing a quality of itself: a part you are finally accepting, supporting, and integrating rather than holding at arm's length. Examine where in your waking life you are at last welcoming a piece of who you are home.

Read the variations closely. Hugging a man means a consciously-chosen, aggressive quality you are integrating; hugging a woman, a receptive, intuitive one rising from the deeper self — the same trait can come as both at once. A warm, mutual embrace is integration that feels whole; a one-sided or resisted hug is an aspect still reaching for acceptance you haven't given it, and embracing a stranger is welcoming a quality of yourself you don't yet recognize. That is one symbol read clean — but who you held, the room you stood in, the light around you are all still speaking. Your subconscious talks to you every night in this exact language; CHITTA is simply where you learn to read the rest of the sentence. Go within, or go without.