Boat
A boat moves between solid ground and open water, carrying you across thresholds of change or uncertainty. Whether the passage feels smooth or turbulent often reflects how supported you feel in transitions—though even rough crossings can deliver you safely to another shore.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for boat, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
Boat signals forecast bright prospects, if upon clear water. If the water is unsettled and turbulent, cares and unhappy changes threaten the dreamer. If with a gay party you board a boat without an accident, many favors will be showered upon you. Unlucky the dreamer who falls overboard while sailing upon stormy waters.
Fontaine, 1862
(See Oar, and Rudder.) To dream you are sailing in a boat in pleasant weather, and enjoying yourself, denotes good success in business; to lovers it foretells happiness; if the weather is boisterous, it predicts quarrels, which will be speedily settled; dreams of sailing smoothly in boats are emphatically good ones to all kinds of people.