Apologising
Naming a fault you committed and taking responsibility for it — the action of putting yourself, in language, under the harm you did.
Apologising in a dream is the dream's image of the action of putting yourself, in language, under the harm you did. A real apology is not a request to be forgiven; it is the act of naming the fault accurately. The dream brings apologising when something in your life — a damaged friendship, an old offence, a recent mistake — has reached the point where the work of naming what you did can no longer be skipped. An apology given fully and accepted is the dream affirming the honest repair. An apology performed for show, with the actual fault renamed as a misunderstanding, is the dream noting that the form has been given and the substance is still being withheld.