Combing
Combing the hair often touches the quiet work of untangling — setting in order what has grown knotted, sometimes amid loss or fading bonds. The dream may ask what you're trying to smooth out, which friendship or attachment feels frayed, and what tenderness the ordering of small things is carrying.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for combing, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of combing one's hair, denotes the illness or death of a friend or relative. Decay of friendship and loss of property is also indicated by this dream{.}
[41] See Hair.