Sorrow
A deep sustained sadness — grief that has settled into a long phase rather than a single event.
Sorrow in a dream is the dream's image of grief that has settled into a long, quiet phase rather than a single moment of crisis. Sorrow is not the same as despair; sorrow still moves through the day with you. The dream brings sorrow when something in your life — a chronic loss, a long-felt failure, a sadness that belongs to the life as a whole — is being lived as a low ongoing weather rather than as an emergency. Sorrow honestly inhabited is the dream affirming the truth of the weather. Sorrow dressed up as cheerfulness for the sake of the room is the dream noting that the long sadness is still doing its full work and now also has the additional labour of being hidden.