figures encountered
Dreaming of Stranger
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
To welcome a stranger foretells unexpected profit or news from far off, for the old readers held that fortune often travels in unfamiliar clothes.
A stranger in your house uninvited warns of interference in your affairs, a matter entering your life that you did not agree to and must now manage.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
The stranger is the part of yourself you have not met yet, arriving in a borrowed face. A helpful stranger is the psyche introducing you to your own unknown kindness or capacity.
A threatening stranger is the shadow at the door, everything disowned and unnamed, and the more it frightens you the more it is asking to be recognized as yours.
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