Dream Symbols

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last updated: 2/2/06

OBELISK Shaping your basic nature through personal effort / Creative or sexual energy wishing to leave its mark
OBSTACLE A hindrance; something that causes uncertainty or prevents you from moving forward in life (inhibitions, fears, beliefs, etc.)
OCEAN Vast, overwhelming feelings; applying enormous emotional energy to something / Your soul; inner wisdom / (see WATER)
OFFICE Being productive; working hard to achieve something; intellectual energy being applied to something; a preoccupation / Your feelings about work, your profession, or how you structure your time
OFFICIAL Your relationship with authority; your sense of right and wrong / Sanctioning something; attempting to coordinate or direct some function within yourself
OINTMENT Seeking to relieve or heal a psychic wound; something that applies to your needs or situation / (see MEDICINE)
OLD Something or someone associated with the past; former times; what has been established and well worn within you through the course of time / Something that no longer serves your interests; old-fashioned behaviors or beliefs / If old people: Wisdom; tradition; past experience; grandparents / If old building: A past way of life, or former life with another person / If old things, furniture: Outworn activities, ideas or beliefs
OLIVE Seeking peace, wanting to make peace / Feeling like the pits; being ‘pressed’ for something (time, knowledge, an answer, etc.) / (see FOOD)
ONE New beginnings; unity; wholeness; independence; individuality; leadership / Concerned with winning or being the first at something; loneliness; favoritism; something that is unique or is noticeably different; wanting to stand out
OPEN Opportunity; being open-minded / Feeling emotionally exposed
OPERATION Attempting to extricate yourself from an unhealthy emotion or attitude; removing or repairing something in your life; damage control / Fear of illness or poor health / If operating machinery: Something that is currently in use or in effect; planning an activity or course of action; maneuvering
ORANGE Warmth; vibrancy; stimulation (juiced up); attraction; encouragement; sexual energy; shrewdness; ambition / Your social side
ORCHESTRA Bringing different aspects of yourself together (mind, body, spirit, etc.) into one harmonious whole / Social cooperation; becoming attune to other people’s needs; synchronizing or arranging events / (see MUSIC, THEATER)
ORGASM Your sexual energy; a creative breakthrough / An attempt to satisfy sexual or creative needs that are denied or repressed in waking life / (see SEX)
ORGY Overindulgence; an exaggerated expression of a need for sex; acting out a sexual fantasy / (see SEX)
ORPHAN Feeling unloved, abandoned or rejected; separation of any kind
OVEN Gestation of a concept; pregnancy; trying to rise to the occasion / Transforming unpalatable situations or feelings into ones that are easier to ‘digest’; rising feelings that need to be assimilated; heated situations or emotions; feeling ‘burned’ by someone
OWL Seeking wisdom; learning to discern rather than judge