Dreaming of a Lifeboat
lifeboat, dinghy, rescue boat · mostly positive
A lifeboat promises escape from danger, unless it sinks or goes astray.
What happens in the dream
- Being in a lifeboat: escape from a threatening misfortune
- Being saved by it: you will avoid a great calamity
- The lifeboat sinks: friends will add to your distress
- Being lost in a lifeboat: trouble that will draw in your friends too
How you felt
- Relief: the dream may reflect a sense of having found a way out
- Vulnerability: it may express a need to be rescued
Ask yourself
- What do I need rescuing from right now?
- Whom can I count on if things go wrong?
See also Boat · Rescue · Shipwreck · Drowning · Escape
Source: G. H. Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or What's in a Dream (1901). Also searched as: dinghy, rescue boat.