Dream dictionary – symbols, part 16

This part of our dream dictionary, covering the Polish letter O, takes in dream symbols from an oasis and a picture to fruit and ornaments. Every dream is best interpreted individually, in the light of your own situation in life.

Dream symbols: part 16

Abandonment (loneliness) – You will be deprived of small pleasures or joys in love; being abandoned – you have good friends.
Abbey – An invitation to a wedding.
Abundance – Good prospects for the future.
Accusing – Accusing yourself – happiness and recognition; accusing your wife – bad news; accusing someone else – unease and contempt; being accused – unpleasantness awaits you.
Altar – A symbol of sacrifice – it can mean either the fulfilment of your happiness or renouncing it.
Announcement – Futile effort.
Announcing – Announcing something – slander.
Answering – Hearing yourself answer a question – don’t do anything without thinking.
Applause – Vanity satisfied.
Axle – A good venture; creaking – stagnation in business; turning smoothly – progress in a difficult matter.
Backwards – Doing something the wrong way round – a failed plan.
Beaten – Being beaten up – a dispute with your household and unpleasantness.
Bed warmer – Minor ailments; buying one – beware of dishonest middlemen; using one – look after yourself.
Being late – Carelessness is doing you harm.
Being wounded – An insult.
Biting off – Something edible – a loss; something inedible – futile efforts.
Blade – Beware of trickery.
Bond (financial) – Profits.
Breadcrumbs – Seeing them – a great deal of happiness; feeding them to the birds – family happiness.
Burgled – Being burgled – you will lose friends.
Camp – For a man – a good omen; for a woman – betrayal, infidelity.
Campfire – Cooking over one – you will set up your own household; putting one out – you know you are secretly loved; blazing – expect visitors.
Camping – Camping in the fields – you will enjoy cheerful moments.
Cardboard cover – You will be betrayed.
Castor oil – You will get rid of false friends.
Chasuble – Beware of flatterers; seeing yourself in a chasuble – honour and distinctions.
Cheat – Catching someone cheating at a game – you will take revenge for something; being caught cheating in business – success.
Children’s shelter – Staying in one – meanness will be your undoing.
Chopping off – A waste of time.
Church fair (indulgence feast) – Many joyful days.
Circumcision – Your family will soon grow.
Circumference – Measuring a circumference – bad advice.
Citizen – Being a citizen – exploitation and ill treatment; applying for citizenship – an improvement in your circumstances; accepting citizenship – discord with friends.
Clothing – Buying it – happiness; wearing black – mourning; wearing white – contentment; children’s clothing – you will have to put up with teasing.
Cloudburst – Serious dangers will pass and pleasant times will return.
Clouds – Light – joy; dark – a mistake.
Collecting (for someone) – Collecting something on someone’s behalf – you will do them a favour.
Cucumber, cucumbers – Success in business; eating them – disappointment, and for the sick a return of strength; eating pickled ones – bad experiences; planting them – hard, fruitless work.
Cutting off – Cutting fruit from a tree – success in a matter you have begun; the amputation of an arm or a leg – the loss of a friend.
Decoration (ornament) – You will rise to honours and wealth; seeing one – vanity will bring you no good; wearing one – happiness and contentment.
Defaming – Defaming someone – you will earn a bad name through your deeds; being defamed – fame and esteem.
Departing – You will escape a bad fate.
Dinner – Eating dinner – rest, a peaceful retirement; eating with someone – happiness and wealth; eating alone – want.
Discovery – Making a discovery – you will learn secrets.
Donkey – Seeing one – discord; buying one – you must cut your spending; riding one – you will reach your goal slowly; braying – effort in vain; running – a dispute with naive people; feeding one – you are doing good to someone ungrateful; beating one – you are harsh with those close to you.
Donkey’s ears – Having them – you will fall into misery; dog-earing the pages of a book – you are ruthless; seeing them – obstacles.
Doorkeeper – You will become a homeowner.
Drunkard – A difficult position; people are laughing at you.
Drunkenness – Prosperity.
Eagle – Soaring – desires fulfilled, business going well; flying – don’t neglect what is closest to you for the sake of lofty plans; with prey – beware of enemies; bringing prey back to the nest – an unexpected increase in wealth, a wealthy marriage; shooting at one – a loss; white – a large inheritance; perched on your head – sad news in the family; being threatened by one – disgrace and humiliation; in a cage – trouble and shame in the family.
Ebb tide – Changing fortunes.
Embracing – Happiness in love.
Enchanting – Enchanting someone – you are provocative; being enchanted – a loss of money.
Eye socket – Bad news awaits you; act slowly and thoughtfully.
Eyes – Blue – passionate love; dark – happy news; downcast – a passionate, secret love; short-sighted – losses of every kind; squinting – humiliation; festering – a bad future; being deprived of them – unfulfilled hopes.
Face – Seeing your own face in a mirror – feeling out of sorts; very pale – worries; ugly – cares; made up – for a man mockery, for a woman adoration and success; very elegant – for a man the birth of a son, for a woman of a daughter; having a beautiful face – your children will be lucky; washing your face – you will regret a certain deed; covering it – you will receive bad news; seeing your reflection in water – a long life and honours.
Fainting – You will receive a kindness.
Farmyard – A time of worries.
Father – Seeing him or talking to him – happiness; dying – misfortune or shame; dead – changes in the family; becoming a father – a happy marriage and a pleasant life together; a godfather: becoming one – a new obligation, seeing one – a present.
Fire – Lighting one – you will win love, you are loved without knowing it; putting one out – you will abandon your plans; burning brightly – according to one tradition unclouded joy, according to another theft; with smoke – an unpleasant misunderstanding; suffering damage by fire – discouragement; seeing a fire in a stove – offspring; fire falling from the sky – you will have to endure injustice; escaping through fire – release from harsh oppression.
Fire alarm – Fear and confusion.
Fireworks – Seeing them – illusion.
Fish bones – A bad future; being unable to cope with the bones in a fish – unpleasant events.
Footwear – Putting it on – you prefer to be away from home; too tight – persecution; new – a good omen; mending it – poor financial circumstances; buying it – a journey awaits you; polishing it – good earnings; losing a sole – an awkward position.
Foreigner – New acquaintances will bring you a little joy and a little trouble.
Framing – Framing a picture – a good investment of money.
Frostbite – Your wishes will not come true.
Fruit – Anxiety about your own success, often in matters of the heart; on the tree – a good omen; sweet – wealth; sour – misfortune.
Fruit tree – In blossom – happiness; laden with fruit – fine results from your work; broken – something will go wrong just before you reach your goal; cutting one down – you will suffer losses.
Garden – It symbolises your present situation; well tended – there is order in your life; ruined or dry – life has lost its colour and everyday routine is absorbing you too much; working in one – false advisers; neglected – profit; seen from behind a fence – your request will be turned down; a zoo – you are playing with fire in some matter.
Gardener – Worries; being a gardener – troubles and worries.
Getting married (for a man) – Reaching the goals you have set.
Giant – A symbol of male strength; seeing one – you will achieve great success; being chased or threatened by one – a bold venture will end happily; having one as a friend or helper – a sign of a great but illusory success.
Giving back – Giving something back – your plans will come true, but don’t let yourself be taken advantage of.
Gluttony – You will find yourself in an unpleasant, awkward position; seeing a glutton – the loss of someone close.
Gnawing – A loss.
Going mad – Others will envy your happiness.
Growing younger – Great happiness.
Guardhouse – You will join the army.
Guardian – Seeing one – you need a greater sense of duty; becoming one – don’t meddle in other people’s affairs.
Headband – You will do your work with ease.
Heel (of a shoe) – Breaking off a heel – you will suffer considerable damage at home; nailing one on – someone will listen to your explanations and change their opinion of you.
Homeland – A longing for fulfilment, but also an overestimation of the past; leaving it – worries about your family’s future; seeing it again – happy moments.
Hoop – A bad sign.
Horror – Beware of acquaintances that are too risky.
Hound – Entertainment, hunting; happiness won through courage.
Hurricane (storm) – Raging – you are defenceless against fate.
Hypocrisy – Someone will hurt you deeply.
Indignation – Unpleasant news.
Insects – Losses.
Insult – Putting up with one – you are indulging in illusions.
Larkspur (flower) – Picking it – a passing flirtation.
Last rites – Serious worries await you.
Lead – Happiness in life and in marriage; seeing it – a false accusation; pouring molten lead – a happy marriage; lead bullets – good news.
Lecture – Giving one – you will find supporters, though conceit will not win you friends; listening to one – there are gaps in your education.
Looking at – Looking at yourself – you will be pitied because of an accident; admiring something – your vanity will be satisfied.
Madness – Being gripped by madness in a dream – in matters of the heart emotion will get the better of reason; seeing someone lost in madness – you will bring unpleasantness upon yourself, and it is also a warning against a planned affair; a psychiatric hospital – you will be deceived.
Marriage proposal – Trouble.
Measuring out – Trouble and a dispute.
Nut – Seeing one – don’t trust appearances, you will meet someone rough in manner but noble in character; cracking one – a great deal of work awaits you; eating one – your brave and energetic attitude will be rewarded.
Oasis – A steady income; you will succeed despite unfavourable conditions.
Oats – Your effort will be rewarded; good prospects for the near future; seeing them – you will achieve prosperity; eating them – health.
Obelisk – You will be held up as an example; you live an exemplary life.
Obese – You will rise to importance.
Oboe (instrument) – You have artistic tastes.
Observatory – You will discover someone’s secret.
Ocarina (instrument) – Distress.
Ocean – A very long journey.
Oddity – You will lose weight.
Offence – The person who is slandering you will try to apologise.
Offer – A business downturn; receiving an offer – new plans.
Officer – You will meet a very beautiful woman.
Oil – You long for peace but cannot secure it for yourself; seeing oil – peace in the near future; using it – you will remove an obstacle; drinking it – someone very nice will, despite everything, arouse your dislike; burning with a smokeless flame – a valuable present or support that will change your life; linseed oil – friends will help you reach your goal.
Oleander – Recognition.
Olive oil – Contentment; drinking or spilling it – serious trouble.
Olive, olives – Good business and success in love; olives on the tree – success in love; watching others pick them – a warning against false love; picking them yourself – don’t be in too much of a hurry; an olive tree – marriage soon or a small lottery win.
Olympic Games – Being a spectator – you are not the only one heading for this goal; taking part as a competitor – you will yield to a rival; losing in the competition – you will defeat your opponents, you have no reason to worry.
Omelette – An excellent life; your affairs will be settled quickly.
Omnibus – A lack of energy is stopping you from reaching your goal.
Onyx – Other people’s pestering makes you angry.
Opal, opals – Happiness and a happy romance; your virtue will be appreciated.
Openings (holes) – A good omen.
Opera – Great troubles; often a picture of human life and its obscure episodes; listening to an opera – a warning against the insincerity of those around you.
Operetta – Listening to one – cheerful company; taking part in one – you are building castles in the air.
Opium – You will avoid danger only by acting quickly.
Orchard – Wishes fulfilled; a fruit market – your plan will succeed.
Orchestra – Happy news; seeing one – you will take part in a big event; playing in or conducting one – you will join or found an organisation.
Order (decoration) – A good position; you long for praise – beware of temptations; seeing a decoration – a sign that you will be decorated; receiving one – you will win recognition; losing one – bad intentions.
Organ – Playing it – good news about a job; seeing one – joy; hearing one – a wedding or a christening.
Organist – A family celebration.
Orgy – Seeing one – a warning against bad company and cheap pleasures; taking part in one – you will ruin your reputation.
Ornament – Seeing one – an acquaintance with artists; making one – your deeds will be admired; destroying one – something beautiful sullied.
Our Father (prayer) – Good fortune.
Oysters – An extraordinary event, a symbol of sensuality and of difficulties on the way to your goal; eating them – good news in the family; gathering them – unfulfilled hopes.
Pencil – A love of art; writing with one – a sign of news.
Picture – Worries are coming; painting one – a good marriage; buying one – cheerfulness at home; hanging one – you will win recognition; taking one down – you will meet with ingratitude; admiring one – false friends will soon get in touch; damaged – many worries and troubles; a portrait of someone who has died – bad news.
Pincers – You will help bring about someone’s marriage; having them – according to one tradition health, according to another betrayal.
Ploughing – A reward for hard work, progress in professional and private matters; you will be given a task that will bring you success if you spot the opportunity; ploughing with oxen – a good sign; ploughing with horses – profitable work; watching others plough – changes for the better.
Poisoning – The solution to your problems will prove short-lived; poisoning someone – you will not push through your opinion or idea.
Police raid – Don’t take risks.
Precipitation – A relative’s troubles.
Protection – Seeking it – a great deal of luck; finding it – debtors are pestering you.
Purification from sin – An insult.
Ragged – Being in rags – a bad omen.
Recovery – Confidence in the future.
Reduction – A price reduction – a good time is coming for small businesses; a pay cut – you will get entangled in awkward public affairs.
Reflection – A reflection in a mirror or in a photograph – a search for a true picture of yourself and others.
Refreshment – Providing refreshment for the sick or wounded – you will experience human kindness.
Refusing – You will have enemies.
Renouncing your faith – Danger threatens you; a bad future.
Retinue – A royal retinue – a splendid life awaits you; a wedding procession – happiness.
Ring-shaped pretzel – You have no excessive desires; eating one – your plans will succeed; eating them in a large group – there will be some squabbling.
Rinsing – A sign of good business.
Rite – Life at home will turn out idyllic.
Robbed – Being robbed – you will get rid of pests.
Rounds (patrol) – You will break up someone’s relationship, yet not start a family yourself.
Sacrifice – Making a sacrifice – you will win sympathy; an offering box – a reminder that all earthly things pass away.
Scraps – Your fortune will grow.
Seeing someone off – Great pleasures await you.
Shaven – Being shaved – very painful losses.
Sheep – Health, happiness and prosperity; shearing them – profits; herding them – wealth; leaping – pleasant company; white – faithful friends.
Sheepfold – Prosperity.
Sheep’s wool – You will acquire a large fortune.
Shepherd – The discovery of a great secret.
Ship – On the water – a win; on land – your work is not paying off; being loaded – a profitable deal; sailing on one – happiness; without a helmsman – failure; under construction – wavering love; steering one – success in a venture; without mast or sails – misery from which there is a way out; in a storm – danger; sinking – sad news, though according to another tradition an inheritance; on fire – a great loss, though according to another tradition joy; entering port – rescue from great danger; at anchor – stand by your decision; being unloaded – expect friends from afar; wrecked – a happy event or the arrival of acquaintances; an airship: seeing one flying – your wishes will come true, flying in one – your bold plans will come to fruition.
Ship’s captain – Expected happiness; a ship’s crew – your wishes will come true; ship’s biscuit – an adventure.
Ship’s gear – Unexpected news from a debtor.
Shouts – Joyful news.
Shutters – Amends.
Slander – You will suffer a moral loss; slandering someone – you will lose respect.
Smallpox – Beware of envy; having smallpox – wealth.
Spectacles – Old age, inner unease and self-absorption; seeing or wearing them – you will find yourself in an unlucky situation; wearing green ones – good forecasts in business; losing them – mind your own interests; buying them – be careful.
Spitting on – Being spat on – happiness and success; being spat at by a snake – misfortune and worry.
Spurs – Having them – a doubtful matter; wearing silver ones – you want to flaunt your wealth; buckling them on – worries.
Stallion – Strength, vitality and passion.
Stench – Smelling a nasty odour – unpleasantness.
Surgical instruments – An unexpected inheritance.
Surgical operation – An abuse of generosity; a warning dream – the path your life has taken so far does not satisfy you, so be prepared for a sudden shake-up.
Tablecloth – White – order; dirty – disorder.
Tail – The end of a certain stage, often in matters of the heart.
Take-off – According to one tradition a wish fulfilled, according to another wishes unfulfilled.
Taking offence – Being offended – a possible parting from a loved one.
Telling a story – You will make others interested in you; listening to a story – a difficult position.
Thaw – A change in circumstances.
Thistle – A sign of misfortune through your own fault; seeing one – adversity; growing them – you will get yourself into trouble through your own fault; pulling up thistles – joy in your work.
Tongue (of an animal) – Release from worries.
Toppling over – You will suffer harm.
Undressing – Walking about naked – you will fall into poverty; being frightened at the sight of a naked person – fear in waking life too; seeing a naked, beautiful person of the opposite sex – a secret longing fulfilled; seeing a naked, ugly person of the opposite sex – a romance will end in shame and the mockery of others; seeing small naked children – the purest happiness.
Untying – Untying something – a slow but steady loss of wealth.
Vacuum cleaner – Don’t let the slightest thing spoil your mood.
Vinegar – Minor ailments; drinking it – disappointment; red – humiliation; wine vinegar – a dispute, a quarrel and a lawsuit; spilling it – you will meet with unkindness; making vinegar – you are brooding on something bad.
Visit – An unpleasant position; visiting someone – you will have to put up with injustice; visiting a doctor – good health.
Wafer – Longed-for news; eating wafers (such as the Polish Christmas wafer) – minor troubles; sealing letters with sealing wafers – greetings and news from faraway places.
Waking up – Pleasant news; waking someone – you are loved.
Wasp, wasps – Not very pleasant news; a sign of laziness, damage and spite; seeing a wasp – a friend will become an adversary, you will make a careless remark; being stung – disappointment; driving wasps away – a separation; sitting on wasps – slander; a wasps’ nest: seeing one – a loss, stepping on one – you will survive many adversities.
Wedding ring – Friendship; losing it – unpleasantness; receiving one – faithfulness.
Weights – Good business.
Whetstone – A row awaits you.
Wild boar – Seeing one running – danger will pass you by; shooting one – a dangerous adventure; catching one – joy and good fortune.
Will-o’-the-wisp – Seeing one – you won’t let yourself be persuaded or led astray.
Window – Closed – courage will lead you to your goal; climbing out through an open one – a premature venture; falling out of a window – danger; looking out of a window – you will hear news; climbing in through one – a quarrel and discontent.

Dream dictionary – symbols, part 16

Dream symbols: part 16

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