Lantern
A portable enclosed light — a flame protected enough to be carried into the dark.
A lantern in a dream is the dream's image of a flame protected enough to be carried into the dark. The lantern is not the bonfire; it is the small containable light meant to travel. The dream brings the lantern when something in your life — a carefully kept belief, a held intention, a guiding principle — is being taken out into a difficult passage and is providing exactly as much light as is needed for the next few steps. A lantern lit and carried steadily is the dream affirming the small portable light. A lantern blown out by the first real wind is the dream noting that the protection around the flame was thinner than the conditions of the journey, and the dark has fully arrived.