The idea of meeting that person or someone they represent in your life, whether a real or imagined meeting (for example, meeting your mother for lunch might represent yesterday’s meeting with a motherly coworker, and meeting Abraham Lincoln could represent a desire to know what he was like).
Meeting someone new can represent: something new in your life (such as a new person, idea, or solution), real or imagined, the beginning of a process (such as a relationship or phase), a fear of change or of something unknown.
For more clues, consider the context and whom or what the person might represent.
See Also: H, shake, Meeting, Person Unknown, Seeing
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