Dream Symbols: O

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Oak 

(Trees)
Growth and learning
An oak tree represents strength, growth, and longevity relating to affairs of the heart or family affairs. Anything wrong with the tree will help you to see where issues are arising within a branch of your family. Oak furniture will link with past family ties, it might be worth looking back over family issues to help with new ones.
The strength of the family unit!

Oar
(Boat/Water)
An oar provides a symbol of your using your own strength to propel yourself forward, even when you are challenged by your emotions. Perhaps you do not usually let your emotions stand in the way of making progress but losing or breaking an oar whilst you are rowing can symbolise the loss of this coping technique.
Is someone putting their ore in? (Meddling in your business)

Obese
Baggage is weighing you down and holding you back. This could also describe when you are indulging too much in something else that isn't very healthy for you. Food is used to create your satisfaction and fulfilment in life, therefore, it could represent the feeling of being loved, spoiled or being overindulged. This type of symbol may, of course, connect to your physical weight and have a literal meaning, but if it is someone else who is really big in your dream then the symbolism will be for them.
Too much of something.
You are bigger than your problems!
Be the bigger person?

Object
Objects of any kind can refer to the object of your desire, so translate the actual object, but if it is a composite object made up of different things so that you can't really tell what it is, then this shows your own confusion about what you really want.
Objecting about something in a dream can be a literal description of something in your life that you object to, either treatment or an injustice.

Obscure
If something is obscured in your dream it is because you do not have the complete picture or all the information to make a clear judgment. Things that are out of your reach will often be obscured from your vision in dreams, but you may have an idea of what is being hidden from you already.

Obstacle
(Accomplish/Danger/Obstacle Dreams)
Any type of obstacle that appears in your dream, represents opposition, obstructions, and delays on your chosen path. You need to find a way to negotiate these obstacles in any way that you can, going over, under and around them using the strength and skills that you have acquired from negotiating previous obstacles and hurdles. This is what helps you to progress and grow as an individual and become stronger in character. 

Get on with it!
Get over it!

Occupation
(Job/Sack and Redundancy/Work)
If your own occupation filters into your dream then the other dream symbols might refer to your working life rather than your personal life. 
The school of life?

Ocean
(Journey/Sea/Water)
(Ocean/Water) 
(Giant Wave Dream)
(Tsunami Dream)
Water describes the emotions, and therefore oceans can represent the vast emotional wilderness that you must navigate. The ocean is full of life and this helps you to understand that life is like an ocean, most of it goes on underneath the surface. Oceans can sometimes be used to describe an emotional distance between you and another person. Salty water represents mixed feelings, tears, and healing.

Octopus
An Octopus will connect to the emotions because it is a water creature. 
Somebody with wandering hands? 
Someone who could lend a hand?

Odours
(Smell)
Bad smells in your dream can warn you that 'something' is going bad, or it could also represent a person who you do not need in your life, they are like a bad smell. A nice smell describes someone who is a breath of fresh air. 
Smells can link you with memories good or bad and they can link you with people who have passed on, in this case, they just want to be remembered.

Office
(Structures)
Dreaming of an office probably relates to your working life or to the work that you do for other people spiritually. What is going on in the office offers more symbolism and might be more important toward the translation. An office is considered a place of occupation and ordered responsibility. Being 'in office' shows that you are in charge and must dictate how things should go.

Officer 
(Copper in Metals)
(People in Dreams)
In dream language, a police officer is viewed as a protector, someone to help if you are in trouble, but also someone to tell you to correct your behaviour.

Ogre
(People)
An Ogre will represent either an officious person or a situation that is difficult to put up with. Usually, a male influence or someone who won't let you get your own way.

Oil
An obstacle dream if you are slipping in it, but if you use the oil to lubricate something then it shows that you are attempting to make something work that has become rusty, maybe a relationship or something like this. 
A slippery person or a slippery slope?

Old 
Worn out 
Something being old usually links with the past, old problems or memories that haven’t completely gone away. Revisiting an old home, workplace or school in a dream represents how you revisit past events or places that have been important to you and your learning. Perhaps you have unfinished business to take care of, maybe you thought your work was finished but there is still more to do. Your ideas are not current; they are outdated and need a revamp.

Olive Branch
An apology.
Forgiveness.
Freedom and harmony.

Onion
(Food)
The many layers of an onion can represent the different layers of a situation that when peeled back reveal yet more information. The spherical shape links with the ‘whole’ or getting the complete picture. Sometimes onions symbolise tears, but onions have healing properties because they absorb the negative.

Open
Any opening suggests that a way forward is available.
Being open to progress.

Opera
(Music/Singing/Theatre)
Take note of the theme of the opera to help in your translation. Using operatic binoculars to watch a performance is used to describe when you 'watch closely' all the drama and theatricals that go on around you, maybe consider the finer details and don't take sides.
Life is like an opera with all its theatricals.
Watching events play out from near or far.

Operation
(Hospital)
Drastic action is needed to bring about change and healing but you need help to instigate these things.

Optician
(Glasses)
You are not seeing things as they really are and need to remedy this. Glasses or spectacles bring clarity to help you see things more clearly.

Opponent
(Attack/Battle)
This type of dream represents an opposing force of some kind. The opposition describes forces that work against you and can represent anything negative that you must overcome.

Orchard
(Garden/Trees)
Spiritual growth and lasting reward for your efforts. If the fruit is going bad it means you are wasting your talents and not making the best use of your time.

Orchestra
(Energy/Music)
An Orchestra can be used to represent the music that we ‘create’ by the actions and deeds that we do. Music creates vibration and in dream language, it can represent the positive vibrations we create around us. The many accomplishments needed to produce balance and harmony.

Organ
(Energy/Music/Piano) 
Vibration
A piano or an organ creates spiritual vibrations and this type of symbol can help you to understand the vibrations that are needed to produce harmony, this will link with your ability to get in-tune with the people around you, or with those in the spirit world, whichever is appropriate. Symbolism can also be taken from if or not you can create harmonic music in the dream, this will translate the notion that to create harmony you must practice and this takes time. If someone else is playing the organ in your dream, think about if it is being played well or not, when music is played badly it will represent the mayhem and chaos. An organ often connects with a church and choir and should make you think about if the spiritual vibration you get from your beliefs creates balance and harmony within you. Or does it create more questions that are not properly answered for you?

Orgy
(Sex)
There are too many people involved in the personal relationship part of your life, you cannot decide what you want or who.
Experimenting with relationships?
Testing the boundaries of a present relationship?

Ornaments
Ornaments describe the things that we think have significance in our lives, what we value and it's worth to us. 
The fragility of the things we hold dear.

Ostrich
(Animals)
Ostriches are birds that are unable to fly and so can highlight the restrictions in your own ability to make progress, maybe you hold yourself back. 
Stick your neck out?

Otter
(See Animals)
Water animals represent the ability to cope well in emotional situations, adopt their ability to adapt.

Ouija Board
(Medium)
This could be used as a symbol when you are trying to find out information from sources that you cannot necessarily trust. Messages from the spirit-world are sort when we do not know how to move on, or we need help to see our future. Remember do not dabble with things that you don't understand.
Tying to connect with the spiritual realms?

Oven
(Energy/Cooking/Kitchen) 
(Machinery)
In dreams, ovens can help to explain how you use your own energy to create sustenance for other people, or how you need it for yourself and your own comfort. The warmth that is created by an oven symbolises your own warmth towards others or the warmth they have for you. If the oven is broken then there may be problems in your ability to give other people what they want from you or for them to give you what you need. Ovens also help to tell us if something is ready or not. A bun in the oven is usually symbolic of pregnancy.

Overcast
(Weather)
Depression and feeling under the weather.

Owl
(Animals)
Think about things carefully before making important decisions. Wisdom and the freedom to fly with your dreams. An owl can sometimes be used to present your spiritual guide and they have also been used in dreams to represent alien contact, but none the less they are a symbol of wisdom and intelligence.

Oysters 

(Food)
Oysters are an aphrodisiac and might represent a prelude to sex and spicing things up in a relationship, especially if you are eating them in a dream.

Ozone
(Sky)
The Ozone creates a protective shield around your private little world. Any holes in it symbolise outside circumstances penetrating the safety of your personal barriers.

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