Association:
Journey above the depths of emotions.
Question:
What emotional depths can I navigate safely?
General Meanings:
Ship of life Generally boat brings to light, how you draw the “ship of life” due to the personality structure, the course you hold and how you deal with shoals, and storms. The individual meaning arises, first of all, from that what you experienced with the boat in the dream. The following accompanying circumstances can often help with the exact interpretation:
- A boat points to approaching changes in life whose way out seems a little bit insecure. It should bring us safety on the shore where a new life smiles to us.
- Crossing a stream in the boat, indicates that you open yourself for other shores, the consciousness extends and penetrates into new spiritual and mental regions.
- Boating in the clear, quiet water promises a straight and successful way of life.
- Boating in muddy, messy water this stands for rather unfavorable prospects for the future.
- If it floats in quiet water, means a quiet trip of our little life boat in the awake life.
- Who controls a boat on moving water, can expect stress and imbalance in the conscious life.
- Who float a boat in the dark, doesn’t know where the things run at the moment.
- Occasionally, a boat points as a sexual symbol, also the wish for a sexual adventure which often exists only unconsciously.
Psychological Meanings:
By the boat or ship we move on the water this symbolizes our feelings. With whom you are together on the boat, with whom you have a close relation or with whom you particularly hang together (” We all sit in the same boat “).
- Motorboat – this an attempt to move quickly forward, with hope to do this with less of your own power.
- Pedal boat – the pedal boat shows that you familiar and trust your own force and move with it through your feelings. Besides, the pedal boat refers to vacation, relaxation and leisure.
- Rowing boat or canoe – like with the pedal boat you also make headway by own force with the rowing boat and canoe. Also it refers to the leisure.
- Kayak, canoe – independent dealings and own way how the conscious manages with feelings and emotional needs.
- Sailboat – The sailboat is moving with the help of wind, and this wind brings you forward. The force of intellect and spirit is symbolized with the wind, which drives the dreamer and helps to move forward.
Spiritual Meanings:
A boat symbolizes our personality with which we move on the “sea of the life”!
Traditional Meanings:
European (Judeo-Christian)
- Changes if see boat in a dream – You see a boat indicates a trip and announces a changes in your present life situation;
- Good omen if lying in clear water – The boat in the clear water in your dream says that everything is now taking a happy process;
- Bad sign if lying in the muddy water – In the dream the water is muddy and there is a boat, accident is approaching or breakdowns in the journey or life course;
- Visit if drive with it – When you are driving a boat in your dream, means that you are going to visit your relatives or friends;
- Sadness if sinking – The dream denotes that you will experience disappointment;
- Bad luck if fall of – In the dream you fall off a boat into the water announces distress and danger and misfortune;
- Joy If sail – When you are dreaming that you are sailing in a boat on smooth water brings you happiness and success;
- Respect if sail with friends – In the dream you are sailing with good company means that you are granted with much favor;
- Delay plans if sail in storm – Sailing with a boat you get into storm, this is a warning that you should shift a planned journey or affairs;
- Warning if sail in dirty water or storm – This dream is a warning about upcoming disaster.
Hindu (Hinduism)
- Happiness if sail in clear water – In the dream you are in the boat sailing in clear water, means that you will have success in your life.
Arabian (Islamic)
- Changes if see a boat – In the dream you see a boat, denotes that you will have changes.