Mourner
A person actively grieving a death — a figure whose current state is the holding of a loss.
A mourner in a dream is the dream's image of a person whose current state is the active holding of a loss. The mourner is not yet past the death; the mourner is still inside the year that follows it. The dream brings the mourner when someone in your life — possibly you — is currently living in the specific shape that grief gives, and is being read by the people around them through that shape. A mourner given the room and the time the grieving needs is the dream affirming the proper holding. A mourner pressed to be done with it before the year has turned, the loss told to take less space than it actually takes, is the dream noting that the grieving has been hurried by people who needed it to be over more than they needed it to be honest.