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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When trying to understand your dreams it is important to know that your dreams are… your dreams. As such, you are the best person to figure out the true meaning of your dreams.
However, it is important to learn how to generally approach your dreams. Dream dictionaries like this one are only a supplement, and if you want to fully utilize the potential of your dreams, you should start at a different place.
My online course “Unlock your DREAMlife” gives you a great foundation for understanding (and recalling) your dreams.
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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.
I saw myself stepping on shit may be 4times now but i dont know its meaning.
Hi, I had a dream where is took a dump in a toilet, it was enclosed, so not sure if it was at home or elsewhere. After I finished, as I got up, I realised I did it on the floor instead of in the toilet, so I went to pick it up with my bare hands to put in the toilet and flush, but it was so big – there were two pieces, and each one was about 25cm in length and about 10cm in diameter, so I realised they wouldn’t flush, and and was making quite the mess, then I woke up.
Any idea what this dream could mean?
I dreamed that I was sitting on the floor with a bunch of relatives, and I had to go real bad because in my dream I was sick from my stomach. The weird part is I didn’t notice I was naked , but before I knew it I had used it on myself. There I was sitting in the middle of what seemed to be a park with a feces all over my private areas and pile in front of me. My sister in law was like hurry run to the restroom and I look at her and I’m like it’s too late I used it on myself.
I had a dream that i pooped on a bath. I was initially looking for toilet, but i i eventually saw a bathroom and i rushed in thinking is toilet. And i pooped in it. What does it mean?
I always find poop around my house which am constructing.
What does it mean to dream of taking a poop and when it is flushed away, it then comes back and joins together and turns into a little crocodile shape?
I always see stains of poo around me. Sometimes as if I didn’t clean myself well
Please what does it mean if a man person, like a late grandmother pour her toilet on you and some enters your mouth.
Just woke up from my dream and came here, my dream was of a man with severe diarrhea. Not myself but this man was in the middle of the street, appeared to be homless. Pulled his pants down and shit himself to death, gallons of poo spewing everywhere including people and young children. I would consider this more of a nightmare than anything. It was a horrible dream and I dont believe me watching another person crap themselves to death has to do with me unloading. I did just quit smoking though.
I had a dream and in the dream I was talking to someone then I pooped and was covering it with my hand so the person doesnt see. Please am really worried can you please explain. Thanks
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I dreamt of huge stool on commode.i don know it was myself or someone else.but this poop is not hard.neither liquid.and I have seen i flushed it nd it had gone.in my dream.What does it mean.please help me in understanding
I dreamt of walking round my yard barefooted…someplace at the yard was filled with feaces so on seeing that I had to move back into the house since I found it so filthy …so on getting to the frontage of my house …it was so littered with food particles that I had to shout ..asking why the environment is so littered….then I woke up
Last two days I had a dream where I poop into the toilet and flushed it…then again today I dream how I poop in the ground inside my brothers room and pack it with my bare hands immediately running to the toilet…I drop it inside the toilet flushed it washing my hands and take my bath….please I need to know the interpretation of this dream and some prayer points
Usually when I dream of feces it means death in the family. Once there was one with poo literally everywhere…since it didn’t come from me but people I knew…there were deaths outside of the family….
My dream is that I pooped so much the toilet exploded!
i had a dream that i was living in my brothers house who was abroad,a man came inhis father inlaw from upcountry he entered in the toilet he did not knw how to use the toilet so he littered every place of the toilet with poop as i went to check i found huge water moving around that made the poop move arond and threw them at the sides of the latrine leaving my toilet dirtu.
Hey I had a really weird dream where I went to take a poo in a plastic pink toilet for toddlers. Not the normal restroom which was actually in the store, but the pink toilet where people can see me. The people in the store were people from my grade, and when I pooped in the pink toilet bowl my middle school (I’m in high school) art teacher came and started looking at me weird so I slowly pulled up my pants and ran away to the other side of the store. I kept on running in the store and then two people from my school caught me and my middle school art teacher was mad. Then I woke up kinda embarrassed and scared.
In my dream I poo a large poo, what does it mean?
This is so weird, I have poop dreams to where I am trying to go poop but people keep disturbing me. And it won’t be just the normal in the bathroom trying to poop and people come in, I’ll be talking to someone in the kitchen and I’m trying to poop at the same time on the kitchen stool and trying to wipe and pull my pants back up without them noticing. It usually involves me realizing I am pooping in a bad spot and then trying to wipe and get up without anyone noticing. It’s been a recurring theme in my dreams.
I dreamed when I was on toilet making a lot of poop when my brother was seeing me behind