The Element Encyclopedia

by Theresa Cheung
Dreams that feature farewells or final goodbyes tend to have the same significance as dreams of bereavement.

If you were saying goodbye to someone in your dream, ask yourself if that relationship is coming to an end, at risk of coming to an end or whether you need to say goodbye to some aspect of your life that you connect with that person. Dreams in which a loved one recedes into the distance and eventually disappears from sight suggest feelings of grief mixed with resentment. On the other hand, dreams in which a loved one waves goodbye happily from a distance suggest you are reconciling yourself to the reality of your loss.

The Big Dictionary of Dreams

by Martha Clarke
It always indicates the desire to make a major change in the dreamer’s life. Attention must be paid to the feeling that it produces. It may be nice to release old moorings and take a new direction; or it may be a painful farewell. When you say goodbye to yourself in dreams, the unconscious is reminding you of the need to move away from something or someone that hurts you, when you are reluctant to leave.

Islamic Dream Interpretation

by Ibn Seerin
The suggested element contained in bidding farewell in a dream entails ultimate comfort. Wishing someone the best at parting means loss of status or job, divorce, death of a sick person, breaking of a partnership, loss in business, migrating from one country to another, or in general it could mean the reversal of one’s conditions. On the other hand, it is said that bidding farewell in a dream also means marriage reconciliation, or the changing of one’s conditions for the better.