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Dream meanings - enabling you to understand your own dreams

Tony Crisp

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OAK Strength, perseverance, mightiness, sheltering, protection, hardiness, fruitfulness. Continuance in the face of difficulties, or facing of hardship. This has probably arisen from some of the harsh climates oaks grow in, like on rocky sea cliffs. Many people translate or understand the cross of Jesus to be a tree. Artists have sometimes depicted Jesus nailed to a tree. Often, this is the oak, which symbolises the power of physical life, the power behind material creation. See: Acorn, Cross, tree.

OAR Means of directing your life through the influences or currents that try to take you off course. May also have a phallic significance due to its in and out motion. Could be used as word play for whore.

OASIS Feeling values, sympathies, growth of living emotions within the aridity of materialism and dry intellectualism. See: Desert.

OATS Sexual energy. Wild oats being the expression of youthful sexuality and sensuality. Also nourishment, or basic sustenance. See: Corn.

OBE OBE's have been reported thousands of times in every culture and in every period of history. A general experience of OBE might include a feeling of rushing along a tunnel or release from a tight place prior to the awareness of independence from the body. In this first stage some people experience a sense of physical paralysis which may be frightening. Their awareness then seems to become an observing point outside the body, as well as the sense of paralysis. There is usually an intense awareness of oneself and surroundings, unlike dreaming or even lucidity. Some projectors feel they are even more vitally aware and rational than during the waking state. Looking back on ones body may occur here. At this very first stage of complete independence some people experience intense fear. This is most likely due to fearing that one is dying. I believe there is an unconscious connection between the exteriorisation of ones awareness and death. See: feature on OBE.

OBESITY See: Fat Person.

OBSCENE It is reasonable and healthy for all of us to have a dream which surprises or shocks us occasionally. As dreams partly deal with aspects of our urges and fantasies which we do not allow in waking life, such occasional dreams are safety valves. It is healthy to be able to allow a wide range of dream experience, from the holy to the deeply sexual; from outright aggression to tender love. In fact we can gain an idea of the depth and broadness of our own soul - whether our psyche is narrow - from the range of dreams we experience. If obscene dreams assail and worry us again and again however, then there is a problem in the way we are relating to ourselves and the exterior world. Psychotherapeutic counselling might help.

OBSESSION We are all obsessed or possessed in various ways. For instance, we may not be able to walk down the street without shoes, or be unable to appear in public without a collar and tie, or properly shaved, or with the wrong people, we are thus literally possessed by social codes, fear of looking a fool, and so on. Being possessed by such things our actions are controlled by such fears. These are the demons that rule our life and enslave us, and that were spoken of in the past as being cast out. These factors are often symbolised in dreams as an obsessing agent.

The agent need not be your own fear or drive however. There are other driving forces, such as social pressure, the and great external forces such as government or corporations, that act upon your psyche.

OBSTACLE This suggests you are facing some difficulty that you feel is blocking what you want to do, or your freedom of action. The barrier can be external or internal, so you need to consider what it is in your life that is leading to this feeling of obstruction.

OCCIDENT See: West

OCEAN See: Sea, Water.

OCTOPUS Depending upon whether you are the octopus, it may symbolise the desire to ravenously seize another in your emotions and possess them. Or it may represent fear of being possessed by such emotions, either in yourself or in another. Hadfield points out that a baby at its mother’s breast often seizes upon her in this way while suckling. So sometimes the octopus represent feelings you have about your mother. The octopus can of course also symbolise any unconscious fear that may drag you into its realm of irrational terror or loathing.

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OCULIST The aspect of self that attempts to improve our view of things, or gives us a false view of things. See: Spectacles.

ODOUR Depends entirely upon what is smelt, what emotions surround it. For instance, you can say 'I smell a rat', or something smells fishy or the whole situation stinks to high heaven. A perfume can remind you of a particular person, and therefore associate with your feelings about them, or with particular memory or events in life. Odours often represent feelings, attractions, repulsion, fresh or stale, living or dying. They can also represent feelings radiating from you, or from what the symbol depicts.

ODYSSEY Usually symbolises the problems, of a personal and inner nature, that we have to deal with in order to find greater maturity or wholeness.

OFFER/OFFERED/OFFERING offer To offer something in a dream, or be offered something usually depicts some sort of change, perhaps one in which a decision has to be made - whether to accept or not. It might also suggest extending yourself, or being reached out to in some way. This might involve some level of risk or exposure to rejection or being used.

OFFICER or OFFICIAL Mostly symbolises the part of you in control of a particular area of yourself. Love for a husband and children may act as a controlling factor on desires to have a good time with others, or over innate laziness. Or fear of being a nobody may direct ambitions and plans. Sometimes represents a feeling of confidence or wholeness that brings authority to guide and direct.

It also associates with any dealing you have with authority, and what this invokes in you. So ti might refer to your father in some way. It can therefore show how you 'authorise' your own actions, or how you judge them.

OGRE Generally, temper, anger, lack of sympathy or understanding, that devours or crushes others. Or a symbol of the same thing in others and how we relate to it. This may be a childhood impression of a parent.

OIL We can pour oil on troubled waters; be an oily or slippery sort of person, or be well oiled. The word is sometimes used to mean flattery, unctuousness, cunningness, or working well, removal of friction, argument and disagreement. In the parables it is referred to as resourcefulness, forethought, and as a symbol for the soul.

OINTMENT A healing or soothing influence or feeling. Feelings to do with care and contact. In some cases it may associate with injury or illness.

OLD See: Ancient.

ONE One is the first number and is indivisible. It symbolises yourself as an individual, a beginning. the first manifestation, something that is so basic and fundamental it cannot be divided. It represents the heavenly Father, the male, masculinity, power. One can divide into any number leaving that number unchanged. It therefore symbolises the power of spirit to enter into all things and yet not change their outer manifestation, as all manifestation has arisen from the one. That is, although each manifestation may be different in outer form yet one can enter each and not change it. Thus a hundred divided by one is still a hundred. One stands for the astrological sign Aries, and represents personality, ego or sense of individuality, pioneering abilities, and the head. It can also mean length or height. Although it is an odd number, and therefore masculine, it is sometimes shown as hermaphroditic due to its ability to go into all. See: Numbers.

ONION May represent crying. or tears, or something we find it difficult to face. It sometimes represents the layers of your personality. Its symbolism possibly arises from its layer upon layer going into the centre. Onions have been used as a symbol to ward off the devil, as is garlic.

OOZE If something like water or mud is oozing out of somewhere, it suggests a leak, or an expression of something. See: Mud.

OPALA reflection of what is going on within yourself. All the shades of feeling within you. See: Jewels.

OPERA Sometimes symbolises either the dramatisation of inner feelings, or the stage of life, or stage of development reached. See: Stage;.

OPERATION Some inner attitude is sick, and is being removed. Fear of illness. Memories connected with an actual past operation.

OPIUM Is often used to describe an attempt to hide weaknesses by idealism, romanticism, religion. It can symbolise any means by which we hide fears, failings, inability to face life, inability to come to terms with life.

ORACLE Intuition.

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ORANGE The colour: Warmth, wholeness. Influence of the spiritual. Life energy.The fruit: Satisfaction, fruifulness. Due to its colour it has been used as a sun symbol, and so a sign of wholeness and life energy. See: Colour.

ORCHARD Fruitfulness, the results of labours. The sort of fruitfulness of a long life well spent. Or if an orchard in bloom, it can depict youth or female fertility. Also peace and personal growth. See: Garden.

ORCHESTRA The harmonious union of different desires, ambitions, emotions, thoughts. Harmonious relationship with others in some activity or work. Cooperative creativity.

ORE Potentials you are bringing to consciousness from your unconscious resources. These potentials are probably to do with innate processes from the long past, or aspects of yourself you have never dealt with before. See: Mine.

ORGAN The different areas of your life, different ideas, capabilities, feelings, sympathies, weaknesses, strengths, that can be played upon. Sometimes represents the wonderful possibilities of the mind, or your spirit, or even the octaves and feelings of sex or love.

ORGY The release of repressed desires, glutting themselves.

ORIENT See: East.

ORPHAN Fear of, or feelings about being unloved. Feeling of being misunderstood, insecure or homeless, either in mind or body. May represent the feeling of being lost, or parentless in the midst of life. . Sometimes this reflects difficult events in your childhood, leading to you feeling abandoned or unwanted. If so there is often a link with feelings of belonging - whether you feel you belong to anyone, or anyone belongs to, or really links with, you.

OSSIFICATION Becoming too fixed in your habits, your mental and emotional outlook.

OSTRICH Generally used as a symbol for not wanting to see what is going on by sticking its head in the sand.

OTTER Ability to deal easily with changing life events or emotions - the river of life. See: Other entry for otter.

OVAL Is a symbol of the egg, or being circumscribed or limited, or in the throes of time. It can therefore be a symbol of material existence, and time. See: Circle.

OVARIES/OVUM Fundamental feelings about sex, reproduction, fertility, and therefore womanhood.

OVEN In common speech it is used as a symbol of the womb, 'one in the oven' referring to pregnancy. Also as a symbol of the crucible or melting pot, where changes in life are made. The oven is a magical instrument, because we put in one substance, that may be inedible and tasteless, and out comes something quite different. It therefore represents transformation.

OVERCOAT Protective attitudes or feelings. Also the feelings or face you allow yourself in public. No display of intimacy. See: Clothes

OWL Intuition and intuitive wisdom, due to its ability to see in the dark, and turn its gaze in any direction. Sometimes represents a fear of the dark, or inner contents of yourself, or of death or the unconscious, the latter being synonymous. Because of its ease with the darkness of the unconscious, the owl in your dreams can sometimes act as a guide or advisor.

OX Represents the earthy, practical, service giving and sexual parts of human nature. See: Animal; Bull.

OXYGEN Energy, life giving forces.

OYSTER Silence, tight lipped, secretive, hiding a secret beauty. It may also represent the body, or material existence, in which your psyche develops as does the pearl, through irritation, and is trapped by its restrictions. In some dreams depicts the shell closed around your inner feelings. Eating oysters is thought by some to stimulate sexuality, and so it could be a symbol of this. And there is the saying, the world is my oyster, suggesting we can find riches and beauty in life once we open the shell. See: Clam; Pod.

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