Letting go
Releasing a hold on something — the deliberate act of opening the hand and permitting what was being kept to leave.
Letting go in a dream is the dream's image of the deliberate act of opening the hand and permitting what was being kept to leave. Letting go is not indifference; it is the work of actively ending a grip. The dream brings letting go when something in your life — a grudge, an old hope, a child who has grown, a relationship that has ended — is at the point where the work of release is the next honest act. A letting-go done cleanly is the dream affirming the open hand. A letting-go performed in words while the actual grip is still held is the dream noting that the release has been spoken and the hand has not yet opened, and the holding is doing all the work the words were supposed to have ended.