Night ferry
A ferry crossing dark water at night — passage made when the route is invisible and the operator is trusted.
A night ferry in a dream is the dream's image of passage made when the route is invisible and the operator is trusted. The traveller cannot see the far shore; the ferry knows the way. The dream brings the night ferry when something in your life — a difficult crossing between life phases, a hard piece of mental passage, a journey through grief — is being made under the guidance of someone or something whose competence has to be trusted in the dark. A night ferry that reaches the far shore is the dream affirming that the trust was warranted. A night ferry that drifts off course, the operator absent from the wheelhouse, is the dream noting that the trust was placed in an empty post, and the passage will need to be reorganised.