A funeral is an ending given form. Attending one is read as a chapter formally closed — in the East rites that settle and even bless, in the West the psyche holding a ceremony the waking life skipped, in Ibn Sirin's tradition a matter concluded, weighed by whose funeral it is.
Three readings
In Chinese tradition · 周公解梦
The Chinese classics read funerals in dreams with a famous generosity: 棺materials pun on 官 (office) and 财 (wealth), so coffins and rites often read toward promotion and fortune — the ending that opens the next season. To attend a funeral marks presence at a proper closing: something concluded with rites rather than left ragged. The tradition asks what in your life has ended in fact and now wants its ceremony — and promises the ceremony pays.
The dream-funeral is the psyche's own rite: it holds ceremonies for endings the calendar never honored — jobs left, selves outgrown, friendships faded, homes sold. Attending is witnessing the closure; who lies in the coffin names what ended. Dreamers frequently report relief rather than grief, which is the tell: the mourning is finished, and the dream is filing the papers. Skipped grief, by contrast, tends to send ghosts, not funerals.
Ibn Sirin's tradition reads funerals by their subject and conduct: following a funeral could read toward following a matter or authority to its end; a well-conducted burial toward a matter settled and a soul at rest. For the dreamer, attending reads as witness to a concluding affair. As meaning: something is being formally ended in your world — the tradition counsels attending it properly: presence, prayer, and the debts of the ended thing paid.
It is the whole reading: the person, or what they represent, names the ended chapter. Your own funeral belongs to the transformation family — the old self honored out. An unknown deceased marks an ending you haven't yet named.
Why did I feel calm or even relieved?
Because the mourning was already done: the dream is the filing, not the grief. Relief at a dream-funeral usually marks a closure your waking life reached but never ceremonially acknowledged.
Is the Chinese good-fortune reading real?
Yes — by wordplay and long usage, coffins and funerals in 周公解梦 lean auspicious: 棺 evoking office and wealth, the ending opening the next appointment. An ending properly held is, in that lore, a promotion's doorstep.
This is the general reading. Your dream is specific.