self

In the Language of Mind, the self is not your personality or your body — it is the Real Self, the unchanging "I AM" awareness that every other figure in the dream is only a fragment of. Look at the form and function: a self is that which observes; its function is to be aware. So when the dream turns its attention onto YOU — you watching yourself, recognizing yourself, becoming conscious that the dreamer is the dreamed — your subconscious is doing the one thing growth requires: making you aware of who is actually living this life. Every man, woman, stranger and animal in your dreams has always been an aspect of you; a dream about the self is the mind finally pointing at the center those aspects orbit. Examine where in your waking life you have been living as the roles you play instead of the awareness behind them. Read the variations honestly: seeing yourself from the outside = objective self-observation beginning, the first real step out of the ego's blind spots; meeting a clearer, calmer version of yourself = the Real Self showing you what you are becoming. That is one symbol read clean — but the mirror you stood before, the house it hung in, the water at your feet are each still speaking about you. 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.