Dreams about feces – what do they mean? (Dream interpretation feces and excrements)
Dreams about feces / urine / toilets
Some are surprised about dreaming that they make stools/feces. It is actually a very common dream theme. A feces dream is often about how we dispose (or do not dispose!) something psychological, in this case thoughts or memories that really has been a load of “shit” (that is burdensome) to carry around. To pee in dreams often carries the same meaning. There are however several angles to what it means to defecate / urinate in dreams. These are reviewed below.
Emptying bowels as a symbol of getting rid of negative thougths. Feces (shit) in dreams can be a symbol of getting rid of something that has been a burden to us psychologically. A man dreamt that he sat and talked with a therapist whilst he was shitting in very large quantities. It was hugely embarrassing for him to sit there and empty his bowels while the therapist was looking at it. Shortly before this dream, he had in reality just relieved his emotions to a therapist. This is a very traditional illustration of how defecating in dreams can be understood as getting rid of something that has cost us a lot of (negative) energy psychologically.
For some time the man had gone around with a lot of thoughts as to whether he should leave his wife or not. He thought it was a hugely embarrassing dream – and the key here is that it was very much out of the comfort zone and truly embarrassing for him to finally tell about his many thoughts to someone else. In his dream this embarrassment was depicted as how highly embarrassing it is to sit in front of someone and empty your bowels.
Many times we “take a dump” (or pee) in dreams while we sit at the lavatory. The location of the lavatory can provide a hint as to whether it is at work, at home or in a third place that we need to get rid of our shit, or simply what the source of our negative emotions is.
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To wipe off your feces on someone else – as an expression.
We can also dream that we sit and smother our feces on someone else – in the sense that we “wipe off our shit” on the other person – an expression which is also used in everyday language.
Psychologically speaking, we are often projecting our own concerns, or perhaps unfortunate (unacknowledged) sides of ourselves onto others – i.e. we attach some negative (or positive!) characteristics to another person that this person does not have in reality. On the contrary, it is our selves that have them , but we do not want to acknowledge that.
Instead we walk around and fret about how arrogant and annoying other people are – but in reality, it is ourselves that we should be irritated about. A dream where you smother your feces on someone else could tell you that this is something you do; attach your less attractive (and unconscious) properties onto other people.
Flooded toilets in dreams can similarly be an illustration of how we are about to explode from being filled with negative thoughts (/negative mental energy), and that we have a hard time getting rid of these thoughts.
Dream dictionaries are a very helpful tool when interpreting dreams. However, generally learning how to approach your dreams, will give you a better foundation for understanding them. My online course “Unlock your DREAMlife” teaches you how to much better utilize – recall and understand – your dreams.
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Also note: Dreams are 100% individual, and when you dream about poop, feces / excrements it’s almost certainly about something else for you than it is for your friend, who also dreamt about feces / excrements. Dream interpretation / dream analysis is sometimes a difficult sport, and a particular interpretation of a dream is only correct if you feel affected by it. Therefore, it is not certain that the above mentioned interpretations are relevant to you.
Dream: I am in one sort of place full of deformed and disturbing people. I go into the bath room area (open common area with holes in the ground and water spraying inall directions) where there are large quantities of hit everywhere…
I cant step to avoid it at all. Later on in the dream I notice people walking around, some half dressed and some named. No one will talk to me at all about what this place is, but I learn somehow that it is a co-ed mental institute. I am trying to catch my brother and fight him so that he will tell my why I am there bit he keeps slipping out of my reach. (I Have not seen him in years in reality).
Two faculty of the place see me trying to fight and come at me with a syringe and I simply stop fighting them a d the inject me in my right hand with something. At some parts of the dream I notice I can sort of fly. In many different places now I end up noticing piles and just disturbing amounts of hit everywhere and a few times I slip and fall in it. Each time I prepare myself for everyone to laugh or say something but everyone just goes on about their day not saying a thing. Almost like I am not there. No one even talks for very long even if I ask them something. I ask one of the staff if I can talk to a councilor and or doctor. One shows up but ignores me when I ask why I am there…
I wake up…
I go back to sleep and dream thatvi am at my grandmothers house and fall asleep. I go right back to dreaming that im dreaming the same dream…
I wake up a bit later, for real again…
Now I feel like im loosing it.
What do you think this dream is all about?
Hi Michael,
I had a dream last night that I walked into a hospital lift, after I’d got in and the door had shut I noticed on the right side there was a toilet overflowing with faeces. On the left side there was a hospital bed covered in faeces.in a panic I went to press the lift buttons but they were also covered, I pressed the buttons and got faeces on my hands. I was trapped in the lift with no way to get out. I woke up gagging for the horrendous smell. By far the worst dream I’ve ever had!
Any ideas what it could mean?
Many Thanks Stacey
I dreamt that I was in a crowd drinking my usual green tea. When I came to the last sip I remember tipping the rest out onto the floor when to my utter disgust a large stool fell out at the same time. I recall feeling so shocked at the time that I immediately started vomiting and then awoke still recoiling from the dream.
Hi Theresa – what an enormously interesting dream! Why would the green tea be associated with a large stool? How can the green tea you drink in real life potentially (maybe) also be a bad thing? Unfortunately I no longer offer in-depth interpretation for free here, as I get way too many requests every day. Instead I offer interpretation against payment – please read more here. Best regards – Michael
hi
i had a dream last night that i went to a bar with some friends and i saw my boyfriend who i recently broke up with in a small fight and still have hopes to work things out as he has done a lot of unfair things whilst being together which he needs to clear out , anyway coming back to the dream i was in abe where my boyfriend was working as a. at tender and i went to sit on a chair on the other side of the bar as i saw him speaking to another woman , when i sat down i ended up sitting in a chair which was covered in human shit , and it covered my entire right hand side from my shoulder to my legs got dirty but only my right hand side and i immediately tried wiping it off with tissue but it seemed to be more and more poop on my arm so i finally went to the wash room and washed it off properly and whilst i’m doing that i see my boyfriend has come into the bathroom to wash his hand and he is looking at me in the mirror . so i wash it off look at him and walk out .
what does this dream mean i am so confused
Hi Namha – and thank you for your comment and highly interesting dream!! The dream could symbolize, how you – inside – are cleaning yourself from the emotional attachment you (still?) have to your ex. Unfortunately I no longer offer free in-depth interpretation here, as I get way too many requests every day. Instead I offer help against payment – please read more here. Best regards – Michael
I had a dream that I was sitting on a toilet pooping and there were 2 children. One belonged to me the other didn’t. They were both close to me and the one little boy also pooped. Then I said to his father look he did it to then we got up flushed the toilet and it overflowed. Then the father of the one little boy looked at the toilet tissue that he had wiped and self with and said that wasn’t his . Very strange dream .
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Hi I had a dream about feces.this lady I hardly know came to visit us in our home and she was carrying a maybe 10 months old baby.W hile we were still enjoying our conversation the baby poop,and when I decided to go take a bathing cloth and some water do that she clean her baby here she was using her hand to take out the remaining feces in the baby’s bottom.
same night another dream occurred where I went to the toilet and the was feces all over the floor in the toilet and when I looked inside the toilet they didn’t flush the poops.i started cleaning and rubbing the floor and flushing the toilet.the feces were hard to be removed on the floor but I finally cleared it.same as flushing the toilet.
When I look at my life I got no frustrations or anger.What does the dream mean?
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Dreamed that I went into the bathroom and my wife was on the toilet seat but when she got up she had diarrhea and she started to clean it off the floor.
Hi Greg,
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I dreamt that I shit on myself, please can you let me know what that mean?
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hello Michael,
I dreamt of seeing poop in my room almost close to my bed and I wasn’t the one that passed the poop. please what does it mean
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I had a dream about the toilet overflowing with large amounts of feces and just when it reaches the top it stops and goes down the toilet flushes and the feces disappears. In the same night, I dream my car is smashed by a truck but I am not in it I am watching my car get smashed and then I am charged with the one being in the wrong I woke up
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I dreamt that I stepped in my own feces, what does that mean?
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My dream is all about shit …i was in a slide with hard shit and i can smell it and its really bad..i am trying to avoid it but still there is shit around the slide .
Hi Rosalyn,
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I often dream of toilets overflowing with shit…never my shit though… I may be in a school locker room with many toilets all filled with shit when I go to use one or a private home… Sometimes the toilet is golden and the rest it’s white sometimes the toilet is oversized and others it’s normal…my dreams never include pissing. I never shit myself because the toilets are already full…
My guess is it’s an interpretation of me bottling up my emotions because everyone else’s issues are “more important” but would like your opinion.
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I have a recurrent dream of a hand made of fecus/shit in a long toilet bowl.
Annette
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I have a recurrent dream of one hand made of focus in a type of too let bowel. What does this mean. Please just use my first name when replying.
thank yoy
Hi Annette,
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I had a dream this morning, in my dream i passed faces on my inner wear, when i came to the house there was people in the parlor , i pretender and went in to the toilet which was close to the parlor, when i was trying to wash my body and take my bath, my mom noticed and asked what i was doing, i told her i just went to toilet but she disagree and told me i passes feces on my body , i said no and people started noticing because the had the odour , i took my bath , was my both and came out to the parlor and i woke up, please what is the meaning , i am much worried
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I had a dream that I was defacating whiles walking and had to clean up with a toilet roll and kept using the toilet roll but the faeces was still coming out whiles using the t- roll until it finally stopped.
Hi Michael,
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hi am joseph yesterday i dream’t about excreting endless large quantinties of solid shit in a dirty toilet where shit hard been scattered everywhere two girls were outside waiting for me to get out but shit was endless even one opened the door and found me and looked the door of toilet after i tried to silently and escape shit got on to my shoes in the process of running (this is the second dream about shit this month relatively the same dream)
Hi Joseph,
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I dreamed I flushed the 1st toilet because somebody had left shit in the toilet with shit stained toilet paper, but it was stopped up and it was rising up, so I backed up from it and it overflowed. I turned around and went to another toilet and the water was colored brown and rising up from the toilet bowl but I had to urinate and didn’t try to flush that toilet. What could that possibly mean?
Hi Kenyatta,
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Hi Michael, I have had reoccurring dreams of sitting on toilets in front of people & having bm’s for approximately 15 yrs now. They are always messy i.e. toilet clogs up, explodes w/
feces shooting way up into the sky where everyone can see it, in public stalls & there are no doors, etc. Last night I dreamed I was @ a party & had to go. Once again, the toilet was open for all to see. I pooped so much it clogged the toilet & I didn’t want to get off the toilet but I had to & people saw.
Hi Danita,
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