Younger self
An earlier version of you appearing in the dream — a self from a previous chapter still carrying its original concerns.
A younger self in a dream is the dream's image of an earlier version of you carrying the concerns and the body of an earlier chapter. The younger self is not gone; the dream uses the figure when there is something that earlier self still has to say or to hear. The dream brings the younger self when something in your life — an old promise, a long-unresolved feeling, an original ambition — is asking for acknowledgement by the current version of you. A younger self met with kindness is the dream affirming that the earlier life is being respected. A younger self met with embarrassment or dismissal is the dream noting that the present self is treating its own past as a stranger, and the continuity between them is being refused.