Being recognised by strangers in a dream is read as a hunger for acknowledgement — that your work and worth are seen. If it feels uncomfortable, tradition sees a fear of losing privacy or of being judged in public.
Has this come up in your dreams before? What was going on in your life then?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.