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Oven Dream Meaning

Dream interpretation from 25 unique sources about Oven

Dreaming of a warm oven suggests that your efforts will be successful.

A red hot oven means you will be loved by friends and family for your affectionate and unselfish nature.

A cold oven indicates regret over a lost friend or a missed opportunity - you need to learn from your past and move on to your future.

If you dreamed of being burned in/by an oven, you will be very lucky, especially if your hands or feet were burned.

To dream of being inside an oven represents the womb. You might be pregnant, or worried that you are pregnant.

(Consider the saying, “a bun in the oven”). Or, you may need more “mothering” - caring and tender loving care - than you are currently getting from family and friends. [1]

See also: Baker

1- An oven is representative of the human ability to transfer raw ingredients into something palatable. In dreams, therefore, this can suggest the ability to transform character traits and behaviour from something coarse to the more refined.

2- As a hollow object, in dreams an oven can also represent the womb. With its ability to change ingredients into something else, the oven can also represent the process of gestation and birth.

3- The oven represents the transmutation of base qualities, and thus suggests spiritual transformation. [2]

The oven can predict food in the future. At the moment, despite everything, you must wait patiently for the reward. For Freudian psychologists, the oven symbolizes the uterus and denotes pregnancy. So it may be that you are incubating new ideas or attitudes. (See also: ALCHEMY, COOKING, FIRE, BLACKSMITH)

To cook something in the oven is a sign of changes.

If the oven is hot, the change will be good, but if it is cold, you must be prudent. [3]

An oven suggests a womb, as in the expression “a bun in the oven,” which means to be pregnant. An oven can also represent transformation, as an appliance that transforms food. Ovens are featured in some fairy tales, too, as a means of punishment (Hansel and Gretel throwing the witch into the oven) or as a means of transformation (the Gingerbread Man becoming a real person after being cooked in an oven). [4]
Psychological / emotional perspective: As a hollow object, in dreams an oven can also represent the womb. With its ability to change ingredients into something else, the oven can also represent the process of gestation and birth. In dreams, this can suggest the ability to transform character traits and behaviour from something coarse to the more refined. [5]
An oven is a heat source that allows you to cook and bake food. Heat is always symbolically connected to change and transformation, and food represents nurturance and self-care.

The state of the oven in your dream is reflecting your relationship to your ability to change, transform, and take care of yourself at a fundamental level. [6]

Material aspects: An oven is representative of the human ability to deliberately start a process of the adaptation of raw material into something that is functional. This can apply within a work situation, for instance at the beginning of a project or in personal life.

The oven thus symbolizes a creative process. [7]

To dream that you are baking or cooking some food in an Oven is a sign that your affairs have reached a standstill.

If you burn the food, you will drift slowly to the bad; if the result is a pleasant meal, then in time you will prosper. But in any case you should be very careful for some time, and certainly take no risks. [8]

Because of the idiom ‘one in the oven’, may depict pregnancy or the womb; the human ability to transform char­acter qualities—from being a sulky, irritable person, one can change to being self-giving and open. It depicts this because the oven transforms inedible substances or objects into de­lightful food. [9]
The most obvious symbolism is that of a womb. You may be having some fears or anticipation in regard to having children.

A warm oven is said to have “fruitful,” or positive, connotations while a cold oven the opposite. Of course, an oven may simply represent housekeeping and cooking.

See also: Kitchen [10]

For a woman to dream that her baking oven is red hot, denotes that she will be loved by her own family and friends, for her sweet and unselfish nature.

If she is baking, temporary disappointments await her.

If the oven is broken, she will undergo many vexations from children and servants. [11]

Heat, urges. You are “cooking” something up; something is brewing internally. Romantic flight into the so-called “good old days.”

Warm feelings.

A cold oven refers to emotional coldness. Points to the state of your relationship.

According to Freud, female sexual symbol, uterus. [12]

Difficulties are foretold by a dream of a very hot oven, but a woman who has this dream may look forward to the love of her friends and family.

An oven which will not heat sufficiently for baking purposes predicts a misunderstanding with a lover. [13]

The oven’s function of cooking represents spiritual change – the transformation of raw basic ingredients or qualities into something usable. It thus suggests spiritual transmutation through the application of heat (fire). [14]
An oven may represent the womb and therefore be a symbol of woman or pregnancy. The symbolized pregnancy, however, may be figurative: some promise of growth in some area of your life, external or internal. What’s cooking? [15]
A warm or hot oven signifies fruitful efforts, but a cold oven indicates regret over a lost friend or missed opportunity; one should learn from what’s past, not yearn for it— look ahead! See also Bake and Roast. [16]
See also: House, accessories metaphors

1. Heat; A person`s imagination (thinking on something);

2. Furnace; cooking up something good or evil (the baker); Hos. 7:4-6; Luke 12:28; Mal. 4:1; Matt. 6:30; Ex. 8:3. [17]

Gives gender-specific: In a woman’s dream a warm oven might signify her willingness to become pregnant or to begin a new relationship. In a man’s dream it might signify positive change. [18]
1. Slang for the womb.

2. Desire to have children.

3. Not want­ing to have children (empty, cold).

4. An upcoming project may be very difficult, but it can be managed. [19]

This symbolizes God’s judgment upon His enemies, Ps. 21:9.

An oven can also symbolize an angry heart, Hosea 7:6 [20]

An oven or cooking stove indicates that you will be relocating; moving to a larger home. [21]
lf you dream that you see an oven burning hot, it signifies change of place. [22]
Used to prepare spiritual food; see “food” [23]
(Fire; Furnace, Grill, Head of household, Kiln, Range) If one sees himself lighting an oven for heating, or cooking on it in a dream, it means increase in earnings and benefits for one’s own growth.

An oven in a house in a dream means bringing a solution to a problem, or winning victory over one’s enemies.

An oven without accumulation of ashes in a dream means a bad marriage. Dream interpretation of ovens varies sometimes depending on the type of oven one sees in his dream.

A grilling oven in a dream means imprisonment for a free man and freedom for a jailed one.

A grilling oven in a dream also represents a respected man of knowledge who is sought to deliver legal opinions or views of wisdom that will satisfy both parties in a claim.

The house range in a dream represents the head of the household, the housekeeper, the butler, a treasure chest, one’s coffer or a safety box.

The baker’s oven in a dream represents the governor’s house, a juvenile correction house, fulfillment of one’s needs, earning one’s livelihood, or recovering from illness.

If one bakes dough in a dream, it means satisfying one’s needs, recovering from illness, winning victory over one’s enemies, or opponent, winning a court case, teaching one’s son a craft, sending one’s child to a school, enlisting one’s son in the army, or it could mean becoming wealthy.

A bakery oven in a dream also represents one’s source of income, revenues, or shop, or it could denote one’s carnal self, its good and evil nature, or it could mean changes in one’s life, profits and losses. Seeing an unknown bakery oven in a dream also represents the governor’s house, or the court house because of the fires that are kindled therein from time to time-as fire in a dream signifies power and sovereignty.

An oven in a dream also represents a marketplace.

(See also: Furnace, Heater) [24]

lucky numbers: 01-05-17-23-34-37

baking in an: affairs wil come to a standstil until a great reward.

being lighted: abundance of food symbolizing love.

very hot on the outside: wil be promoted within your community.

brick: big profit in business if you acknowledge old-fashioned techniques.

cooking good food in an: business wil improve slightly.

too long in an: success in love obtained through adulation.

food burning in an: are drifting into bad paths.

overheated, being: friends entice you to their distant shores.

turning off an: wil be of service to someone, if you can get past the arguments.

woman dreaming of a hot, a: wil be widely loved. [25]

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