The most negative interpretation is that the oyster represents a well guarded individual; a person who has shut himself off from others. Attempt to connect some of these ideas to your emotional life and overall experiences and keep in mind the setting, context and outcome of the dream. When considering the interpretation of feeling pain in your dream, first look at you physical health.
If you are feeling pain in your daily life, it may carry over into your dream state. Additionally, if the pain is emotional in nature, question the painful feelings and attempt to identify their source.
The dream state is usually a safe way to experience negative feelings with which you may not want to deal. [1]
Pain
Pain felt in a dream may have a physical cause (though to what extent any pain is purely physical in origin is debatable: perhaps pent-up emotion is the root of all pain). Otherwise, it may express emotional deprivation. Where is the pain? It may be that what is associated with that part of the body (e.g. self-expression, associated with the throat) has not been allowed adequate expression. But there is no simple one- to-one correspondence between part of body and type of emotion: for example, any emotional blockage may cause pain in the chest; and the same applies to the belly - where we must not assume that pain invariably indicates unfulfilled sexual desire. [2]
2- The oyster is almost unique because of its ability to transform a grain of sand into a pearl.
It is this quality which tends to be brought to notice in dreams to demonstrate how we can change an irritant into something beautiful.
3- The oyster represents spiritual transformation. We can build on negative qualities in our lives without trying to eradicate them completely. [3]
If you saw oysters but did not eat them, you are confident without being conceited, but you may tend to be a bit distant from others.
A dream of oyster shells foretells that you will be frustrated when your attempt to get something that belongs to someone else, does not work out. [4]
Eating oysters is a sign of good luck in love affairs, but if your main concern is business, this dream suggests that you will have to be more energetic and/or aggressive in asserting yourself if you want to succeed. [6]
For this reason a dream about oysters may be highlighting fertility issues. In dreams, as nowadays they can be expensive, they may well also represent the act of seduction. [8]
Because of the chance of finding a pearl here, a type of treasure dream.
The shell of this creature equates to ainnor or obstacles to intimacy 7 .
Life’s little irritations helping you to develop wisdom and patience. Pearls in an oyster are actually formed due to the irritation in the skin caused by a grain of sand or dirt. [9]