I think for the most part dream interpretation is quite a personal thing. When I remember my dreams I can frequently trace out where something has come from in a way that seems obvious to me, despite not being conscious of it within the dream, and I trust that I'm getting the right answer. E.g. in the last dream in my journal I'm walking beside a river, pass a rusty bridge with a big pipe going over the top. When I recall it its obvious that it was drawn from the local canal, which has a bridge called the "meccano bridge" because its all metal rivets and girders and looks like its made from a construction toy, and from the pipes that I've seen crossing over canals in general.
IOW, if you remember "3" and then think "oh, my OCD", I think you're right about it, but that I couldn't really say whether you're right unless I knew you a lot better, and what you were doing the previous day. On the other hand if you only made any connection between "3" and OCD *after* you had the dream, because of something someone told you, I wouldn't make anything of it. I don't believe there's a universal mapping between symbols and meanings that would affect your dream (e.g. hampster=eating too much :-)).
I don't really try to work out what my dreams "mean" as a whole though, so I don't have an answer to the rest of your question.
I went on to read the page on Sylar on the wiki you linked to; I'm not sure I I understand what you mean by a Sylar complex but I hope you don't think you were in danger of becoming a serial killer . I used to think I had some sort of ESP/TP.
I heard voices a few times, I think it was just people I knew saying my name, not telling me anything, but I had to wonder whether they were thinking about me at the time. If you feel like talking about that you might try searching "Hearing Voices" online; there seem to be some interesting discussion groups, though there I couldn't find good information online that didn't have a conventional mental health tone/POV. The alternative sites agree voices are associated with stress etc., but I think they're less judgemental and I'm sure there are forums or electronic mailing lists where they'd be interested, more so than here.
Nice description of OCD by the way!
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