Dream Symbol · Universal Language of Mind
Characteristics within your personality
According to CHITTA's Universal Language of Mind, People in a dream represents Characteristics within your personality. That meaning is the same for every dreamer — but what People is SAYING is not: the message is composed by where People appears in your dream and what happens to it.
In the Language of Mind, the people in your dream are not other people at all — they are aspects of YOU, the many characteristics that make up your own personality. Look at the form and function: a person is a distinct identity with a way of being, and your psyche is built from dozens of such distinct ways of being. So every figure your subconscious casts is a part of yourself wearing a face, brought on stage so you can see a quality you carry but rarely look at directly. Ask not who they are, but which trait in you they are showing you — and how you were relating to it in the dream.
Read the variations precisely. Men are a conscious-mind aspect, a quality you have aggressively chosen and learned this lifetime; women are a subconscious aspect, a receptive tendency that arises in you as natural intuition. A crowd is many traits acting as one — a whole pattern of self moving together — while strangers are aspects you have not yet recognized in yourself, and a faceless figure is a part of you still hidden from your own awareness, since the face is identity. Notice how you treated them: embraced, argued with, ran from. That is exactly how you are treating that part of yourself in waking life. This is one symbol read clean — the room they stood in, the words they spoke are still speaking. Your subconscious talks to you every night in this language; CHITTA is where you learn to read the whole conversation. Go within, or go without.