People

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.