Infant

In the Language of Mind, an infant is the birth of a brand-new inner quality — a way of being that has only just come into existence within you. Look at its form and function: an infant is a life freshly born, undeveloped, wholly dependent, needing care and attention to grow. So when one appears in your dream, your subconscious is showing you a quality, attitude, or capacity you have only recently created — newborn, still fragile, and asking to be nurtured rather than ignored. Examine where in your waking life something genuinely new in you has just been born: a fresh mindset, a tender new skill, a way of seeing yourself you have never carried before. The dream is not about a literal child or an outer person — every figure in it is an aspect of you. Read the variations the way you'd watch over a newborn. A healthy, thriving infant = a new quality you are tending well and it is taking root; a neglected, crying, or endangered infant = a new way of being you've left unattended, calling for the care it needs to survive. That is one symbol, read clean. The arms that held it, the house it was born in, the figure who handed it to you — each is 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.