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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.

Attitude which removes friction in oneself or in a relationship; flattery; unctuousness; fat in ones diet. Oil can at times indicate love and its healing effect, or an easing of conflict. Attitudes or feelings that enable you to experience trouble free living.

Oil often used in sacred rites and in dreams it can signify the giving of a blessing or a spiritual gift. See Spirit

 Black oil in your car or a machine shows the problems from the past that lead to the car/machine not functioning well. This arose from the way you lived in the past. So changing or putting in oil shows a move to greater love or positive feelings – better and easier working and the freeing or easing of problems.

Baby oil: Healing words or actions to soothe simple problems or to ease someone’s childlike pain.

Oil the palm: Being bribed or bribing someone.

 Example: A huge furnace of coke is slowly dying out. Oil or fuel is dripping on it, but instead of igniting, it is putting the fire out through insufficient heat. I therefore open the air vent further and this solves the problem and the fire builds up.

The dreamer felt this was about his energy, his fire of life going out. Then through breathing exercises it was put right.

 Example: I was talking to someone, a man, about having changed the oil in my car. The oil was slightly black, but the green still showed. I explained that it would have been even less discoloured, but the previous oil was very dirty/burnt/black, with sediment.

This dream shows you the problems that are causing darkness/pain at present. The oil is that which brings your life to trouble-free running. The changes made in your life are represented by the oil change. The changes are those which cause you to seek love in your life. This is blackened by your past feelings and inability to love. The man is your present state of mind.

Idioms: Well oiled; oil the wheels; strike oil; oil on troubled waters; burn midnight oil.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What was the oil used for in the dream?

And what else was mentioned in the dream, your attitudes?

Am I feeling and depression or painful emotions that the oil of love might help?

See Being the Person or Thing – Conditioned Reflexes – Avoid Being Victims – Martial Art of the Mind

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

Probably the most general associations with onions is they can make you cry. So this might be saying there is something going on in your life you might need to shed some tears over. May represent 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 can be portrayed in dreams as a health aid or perhaps how your body deals with eating them. Being round the onion can represent wholeness and unity. Sometimes the onion is used instead of garlic to act against the powers of evil. See Core

If you dislike onions then it is pointing to feelings of dislike about something or someone.

Ooze Oozing

If something like water or mud is oozing out of somewhere, it suggests a leak, or an expression of something. The primeval ooze, mud that germinates new life, such as ideas and creativity. Such oozing mud carries the primeval powers of your body and the life process.

It can also indicate the mess of your own or someone else’s fears and emotions entering your experience in some way. It is similar to what we mean when we say, “What a mess.” See: Mud.

 Blood oozes sometimes in dreams and can suggest a loss of energy or a woman’s menstrual flow. Sometimes oozing is sometimes used in describing someone trying to get into your life or body, or trying to hide what they are up to. 

Example: Then the crazy man oozes through under the door jam. He is now a “small person.” I grab him by the throat and try to strangle him while I hold him up. I go out to the hall and throw him in the elevator. I yell at him not to come back!

Example: The pipe ran under the floor from the cellar in the house nest door. The pipe had an open connection hole level with the floor. It was from this the thick oily sewage oozed up. I realised someone next door had gone to the toilet and as their toilet or pipe was blocked in some way it caused the flow-back. I went next door to tell them to do something about the situation. On waking I thought I imagined the best resolution was one in which I screw on a sealing cap to the pipe. Then any backflow would go into the next-door cellar.

Example: Those children, wallowing in the mud beside the willows in the hot summer sun, had been performing an ancient and sacred rite, returning to the source of life and their beginnings under the sun.

These things help to explain the great importance of the anus to the psyche, and why the sexual fantasies of most children center on the anus rather than the vagina. Later, with more specific knowledge of their origins, children replace the image with the vagina, and a new series of sexual theories appears. Most patients deal with their birth fantasies at this level, and there is much dealing to be done before the simple animal facts can be accepted.

Faced with the vital, primitive conditions of birth, patients draw back in shock and revulsion. But they face them all the same, for there seems to be some instinctive reality demand made upon the evasive consciousness. Before they are through with a long therapy, most patients have experienced a remarkably accurate and harrowing recapitulation of what birth must be like. They discover that with civilized human beings it is still remarkably the same process that mare and colt, cow and calf, bitch and puppy endure.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

What is oozing and what from?

How did I relate to it and with what feelings?

Did I manage to deal with it?

See Martial Art of the Mind – Being the Person or Thing – Clicking On

Opal

A reflection of what is going on within yourself. All the shades of feeling within you. The inner world of your dreams, fantasies, psychic impressions. Protection against anger. Purification.  See: Jewels; Magical Dream Machine

Opera

Dramatisation of inner feeling situations. See: arena; Stage; film.

 Singing or hearing opera represents your own dramatic play of feelings, often an uplifting influence, a reaching up to your heights, or down to your depths of emotion. Sometimes it also has a theme and will lead to a realisation. See Plot of the Dream

So this might be suggesting the dramatisation of your inner feeling situations. Or perhaps the drama of your life, the stage of life, or stage of development reached. Most operas are about tragic, romantic or magical relationships, and so your dream might be indicating something in your own life reflected in the opera.

 Example: I am walking rapidly down a very crowded street. I am in a blue velvet suit, and I am the star of the opera which is about to be presented. All of the people are recognising me as I walk through the streets.

Now I am in line as one of the spectators waiting for the show. I have a ticket in my purse and my dog, Duffy, in a kennel box.

Now I am with Cliff, an intimate college friend of mine, in his house. Attached to his house is the building where the opera is to be presented. He is the carpenter, builder, and logistics supervisor for the production. All of his work is done backstage. I have great feelings of love for him and prepare myself for the show in the sunny spacious apartment where he lives. Quote from Sundance.

This dream is clearly about his life’s work, as the very word opera comes from the Latin opus, meaning work. Opera as an art form includes, as doe’s life, a variety of artistic expressions: singing, dancing, high drama. It can also be seen that you experience all of the perspectives in the dream which people experience in their own lives: the spectator, the star, the producer, and director. What isn’t said clearly is that all the work of the carpenter takes place ‘backstage’, out of sight in the unconscious. See: archetype of Christ  

 Example: I’m watching a film or video taken from a helicopter, I suppose, of a city skyscraper all the way up to the roof where a singer – maybe an opera singer – is performing, singing to the sky in an evening dress. The “camera” passes over her and continues, showing the tops of other high buildings. Now I’m in a car on a hill – its night, been night all along – and I’m crying because I’m afraid to go up that high. I couldn’t do what the singer was doing. The person I’m with hugs and consoles me. Alta

Here Alta is meeting her own fears and recognises them as factors that limit how ‘high’ she can go in life. It shows her wonderful potential but also the fear if the way of claiming it.

Idioms: soap opera

Useful Questions and Hints:

Was I singing or listening?

Did the music move me, if so in what way?

What was the effect of the opera?

See Active Passive – Characters and People in Dreams – Being the Person or ThingBeing the Person or Thing – Core

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.

Orange

The colour:

The colour – Blending or balance of emotions and intellect. Orange is a blend of red and yellow, and as such much refines the basic instinctual energy or red with the life giving yellow. So it is often used to indicate refined or transformed sexuality or urges, and perhaps greater wisdom. Its link with fruits such as oranges and apricots also might link it with fruitfulness. It therefore suggests health and energy along with a calm mind. See: Colour.

Some people call some shades of red orange, so occasionally there might be a difference in terminology.

Because some people and cats have orange hair, the colour might at times refer o a particular person or feelings about an animal.

Sometimes: Warmth; religious feelings or insight. In some dreams when it is an object coloured orange it suggest something flashy, outrageous or quirky.

Brownish orange: This suggests health problems or a lowering of energy and clarity.

Orange hair: Warm or life giving thoughts or ideas – or reminder of a particular person you know with that colouring. See: hair.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What am I feeling in the dream about the colour, and where do I find those feelings in waking life?

What past associations and memories do I have with orange, and do they throw light on the dream?

Where does the orange appear – clothing, objects or body? In whatever context, look up how it relates to the clothing or body part, etc.

See orange under food – Kundalini – Energy Sex and Dreams – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

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 or spiritual growth. See: Garden

 Destroyed orchard often represents the dreamer’s feelings that he has destroyed hid or her own inner fruitfulness and creativity.

 Example: I have taken an apple from a tree while I am passing an orchard. A big dog comes and jumps at me, I am terribly frightened, and I wake up yelling for help. Quoted from Dreams the Forgotten Language by Erich Fromm

The apple that was stolen represent the forbidden fruit, in this case a married woman he had fantasised having sex with. The big dog is his own instinctive reaction.

 Example: I am working in some banana orchard and I hear some woman say ‘cut it down!’ I look around, but I don’t know what she is talking about. All the plants look healthy to me. Other women are laughing. I am raking up a few leaves. It is windy, but there aren’t many leaves or much to clean up here. I don’t know where this woman is.

The man who dreamt this was poking fun at himself. The banana often represents a penis.

 Useful Questions and Hints:

What type trees does the orchard contain?

Was there much fruit in the orchard and was it ripe?

Have I ever stole fruit from an orchard?

See Being the Person or Thing – Magical Dream Machine – Clicking On – Sacred Tree

Orchestra

The working relationship between the different aspects of oneself – mind, body, spirit; ones sense of social co-operation or harmony in the cosmos. The creation of something influencing other people – the audience – through cooperation.

It sometimes links with your own innate musical ability, and it is worth exploring. See Being the Person or Thing

Conductor: The Self; whatever is directing ones life. Feeling you are in power or are directing the events of your life, perhaps a case of hubris, an excess of ambition and pride. See: music; musical instruments.

 Unable to follow the score: Perhaps a failure to work or live in harmony or cooperation with life or others.

Jazz orchestra: – It indicates an ability to live or appreciate a life that is less constrained and can contribute creatively. Or if not liked might suggest a life that prefers to follow traditional paths of life.

 Example: ‘I am a journalist reporting on the return of Christ. He is expected on a paddle steamer going upstream on a large river. I am very sceptical and watch disciples and followers gather on the rear deck. The guru arrives, dressed in simple white robes. He has long, beautiful auburn hair and beard, and a gentle wise face. He begins to tap a simple rhythm on a tabla or Indian drum. It develops into complex intermingling of orchestral rhythms as everyone joins in. I now realise he is Christ, and feel overwhelmed with awe as I try to play my part in the music. I’m tapping with a pen and find myself fumbling. A bottle or can opener comes to me from the direction of Christ. I try to beat a complementary rhythm, a small part of a greater, universal music.’ Lester S.

Example: The music from the hi-fi expanded to a new kind of “living sound” more beautiful than any music I’d ever heard before. I could hear all of the percussive noises of the instruments, the scraping of the bow on the violins, the mechanical noises of the other instruments, the breathing and air noises as the vocalists sang, and within the space of a few minutes, the orchestra had transported itself from the loudspeaker and now seemed to be totally inside my being somewhere. I was delighted, amazed, and carried away with the sheer majesty and beauty of these sounds which were liquid and tinged with colored lights. I wondered indeed why it is that the ears of man are normally so hard of hearing. Lambert Dolphin

You didn’t hear the harmony,

The voices all as one,
The orchestra of all those sounds
With single voice of none?
I heard it here this afternoon,
One voice sang through them all,
Collecting all the sounds of life,
Into one vibrant call.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Did I notice any feelings of cooperation or harmony?

What did I feel?

Did I listen to the orchestra or was part of to?

See Clicking On – Edgar Cayce – Allowing the Spontaneous – Diving into the Depths of Mind

Ore

This shows you discovering your potential, mining new ideas or energy from within you. These potentials are probably to do with innate processes from the long past, or aspects of yourself you have never dealt with before, or personal resources needing work to make usable. Potentials you are bringing to consciousness from your unconscious resources. See: Mine.

Precious ore: In dreams this usually represents the great wisdom or insights you have gathered from digging into yourself, searching for who and what you are. They are precious because you cannot help but by changed by finding them.

 Example: I was a youth, with a friend my own age, and walking up the hill opposite Amersham hospital. The boy was showing me the stones imbedded in the ground, and saying some were full of minerals. I dug out a piece of what looked like iron ore, or lodestone. I noticed thousands of small stones embedded in the earth like a mosaic. I had never noticed these before, despite having walked that hill in dreams many times. I believe the boy threw a piece into the sky, making it fall like a meteorite.

Example: I have come across a tunnel dug into a rocky cliff.  A track sloped down from a hill or a mountain past the tunnel entrance, which was on my left.  I saw a few men emerging from the tunnel.  Small broken ore/rock covered the exit to the cave forming a level surface to walk on.  I knew the men had found the treasure in the tunnel.  I saw bits of gold, like chunks of rock, on the ground near the exit. I knew also that there was still a great treasure in the tunnel.  Another person went in to get some of the treasure.  However, I knew that to have a treasure you had to answer a question put to you by something like a Guardian of the tunnel – maybe a sphinx.

In exploring the dream I found that the cave is an absence of something.  It is the result of work done of clearing out, of chipping away at what was there inside me.  This led to revealing what we consider to be treasure.  The treasure was there but it had not been revealed, it was part and parcel of the rock. What I find interesting about the dream is that there are pieces of gold lying about outside the cave.  So one could gather a lot of treasure simply from what is already available.  There would be no need to enter the cave.  But there is the promise of enormous treasure inside.  It isn’t so much the wealth, but there is the impression that the treasure is not simply lumps of gold, but un-nameable things that one would find extremely valuable.  There is also the sense I have while working on the dream that the cave that has been dug, that has been mined, connects with natural caves that go deep into the earth within the mountain.  I have a sense that these link with the far past, with the origins of life on earth, and our own beginnings.

 

Useful Questions and Hints:

Does the ore promise value or is it valueless?

Did I find gold or gems in the ore?

Was it me who found it or was it already there?

See Being the Person or Thing – Diving into the Depths of Mind – Features on Site

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.