The Dream Archive

Find a Symbol

Search across 2,348 dream symbols drawn from the older dream books and the public archive. Each entry carries an original interpretive note for the contemporary dreamer.

From the Dream Archive
Parting medallion
Parting

Parting

Parting — taking leave of others — often touches little daily vexations if you part from friends, but success in love and business if you part from enemies. The dream may ask what or whom you're separating from, and whether the leave-taking underway is a small grief loosening on you or a welcome release clearing the way for good fortune.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
Parting in your dream?
This page is one symbol. Tell us the whole dream and we'll find every symbol in it, free — then read them against each other, as one dream.
Interpret My Dream · free
The Dreamometer

A live archive of what the world is dreaming tonight: which symbols are rising, the collective mood, and where the dreams are coming from. Free, always.

See what’s rising tonight

What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for parting, 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 parting with friends and companions, denotes that many little vexations will come into your daily life.

If you part with enemies, it is a sign of success in love and business.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream of parting from friends with regret, is a sign of disappointment: if a girl dreams that her lover is going away anywhere, and she feels bad when he takes his leave, it predicts that he will not go raving distracted with delight the next time he comes to see her, and she will consequently be disappointed at his supposed coolness; but all this may not amount to anything more than to make her feel bad for the time being.