To see oil in your dream represents your desires to have things run more smoothly. Perhaps you need to put a little oil in something to get things moving. Alternatively, you may need to show more love and compassion in your life. Metaphorically, dreaming of oil may refer to someone who is slick or smooth.

To see crude oil in your dream signifies great wealth and riches. Alternatively, the dream refers to over- consumption. You need to conserve and be more environmentally conscious.

To dream of anointing with oil, foretells events in which you will be the particular moving power. Quantities of oil, prognosticates excesses in pleasurable enterprises. For a man to dream that he deals in oil, denotes unsuccessful love making, as he will expect unusual concessions. For a woman to dream that she is anointed with oil, shows that she will be open to indiscreet advances.