The article examines the narrative meaning that allows constructing an understanding of the surrounding world, oneself, and human actions through stories that give events, motives, and goals meaning, forming a single narrative plot. Ontological, epistemological, and hermeneutic prerequisites for meaning-making are analyzed. The narrative meaning is demonstrated, linking personal experience with cultural, ethical, and temporal contexts in which one’s own existence acquires a narrative form through the linking of events into a plot, in which not randomness or absurdity is revealed, but a direction in the context of which teleology manifests itself as one of the possible modalities of meaning. It is proved that the narrative meaning is revealed as a synthetic category representing the ontological rootedness of man in the world, the epistemological activity of consciousness, and hermeneutic experience. The key role of narrative as a means of semiosis is recognized. It is argued that in the context of the formation of personal identity, the narrative meaning of autobiographical narration acts as a key basis for maintaining a sense of one’s own authenticity in the face of the modality of ‘unnatural’ existence.