Ship
A long journey on inner water — a life arranged for travel through feeling.
A ship in a dream is the dictionary's image of a long journey on inner water. The ship is the structure that lets you cross the sea — your emotional life — without being in it. The dream often appears when you have been organizing your life specifically to carry you through a long emotional stretch.
Where you often see it. A ship in port. A ship at sea. A ship leaving. The dream uses the ship for a long journey on inner water — a life arranged for travel through feeling.
What it is not. A ship is not the same as a boat. The dictionary reads them as different scales: the ship is the larger inner vessel.
Related in the dictionary. Read ship with sea, boat, lighthouse, and any scene of large emotional voyage.