Mourning
The active, named work of grieving — a chosen practice of attending to a loss.
Mourning in a dream is the dream's image of grief made into an active practice. Mourning is not the same as grief — grief is what happens to you, mourning is the deliberate attendance to it. The dream brings the action when a loss in your life has reached the stage of needing rituals, time set aside, and the company of other people who can hold it with you. Mourning expressed openly is the dream affirming that the loss is being given its due. Mourning postponed indefinitely is the dream noting that the grief is still in you, and the absence of the practice has left it without a shape to move through.