night journey
Travel after dark
A night journey is travel undertaken during nighttime hours, often suggesting mystery, danger, or transformation.
The phrase carries literary weight—journeys in darkness tend toward the metaphorical, representing passages through difficulty or the unknown: The novel follows his night journey through grief.
In ordinary use, it simply means traveling after dark: We took a night journey to avoid the heat. (Capitalized Night Journey refers to Muhammad's miraculous journey.)
- dreamscapesImaginary sleeping vistas
- dream stateConsciousness during sleep
- lucid dreamingSleep state with awareness
- vision questRite seeking supernatural guidance
- moonlitBathed in lunar glow
starry sky · nocturnal · sleeper car · train ride · road trip · midnight · odyssey · voyage · trek · crossing · passage · wandering · astral projection · quest · exodus · underworld · Orpheus · adventure
- divine revelationtheophany, epiphany, illumination, divine voice, heavenly voice
- Egyptian AfterlifeBook of the Dead, Pyramid Texts, Osiris, ba, Anubis
- Quranic StoriesAdam and Eve, Noah's Ark, Moses, Abraham, Joseph
- dreamsnightmare, dreaming, daydream, nightmares, dreams
- moonfull moon, lunar, crescent moon, new moon, half moon
- questsquest, seeking, main quest, searching, side quest
night journeyovernight stay
Lodging for one night
sleeping in · bedrest · staying put · night vigil · encampment
night journeyrebirth
Spiritual or physical regeneration
awakening · enlightenment · resurrection · homecoming · ascent