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Farewell

Farewell

A farewell often touches parting and the ache of word from the absent — an indifferent goodbye hinting at fading affection. The dream may ask whom you're letting go of and how the leaving feels, whether sadness or relief colours the parting, and what unwelcome news of someone far away the gesture of goodbye is quietly heralding.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for farewell, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

To dream of bidding farewell, is not very favorable, as you are likely to hear unpleasant news of absent friends.

For a young woman to bid her lover farewell, portends his indifference to her. If she feels no sadness in this farewell, she will soon find others to comfort her.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To say farewell, or to hear another say it, is a bad sign, you will hear painful news.