Even creepier than dreaming about an ex or someone you once knew is dreaming about someone you don't know at all: a stranger. It may surprise you to learn that of the people we dream about are strangers. That is, people who are unfamiliar to us. An older study (via ) found that these strangers tend to be male. Patrick McNamara, a neuroscientist, summarized the study in an article for , writing, "In short, male strangers occur very often in dreams and they invariably signal physical aggression." He continued: "...Male strangers appear to be a 'code' for aggressive impulses that are being processed in memory.", Dreaming about someone not talking to you can reflect your own suppressed emotions, unexpressed thoughts, or disconnection from your inner wisdom. This dream may indicate a deep-seated fear of rejection, social anxiety, or fear of being overwhelmed by emotional burdens., Leading dream interpreters like Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung believed that dreams represent your desires. If you dream about someone you don’t talk to anymore, it means that you desire them or something about the situation and connection you had with them..