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What are bathroom dreams about?

Bathrooms and toilets are such an interesting part of life. We use them everyday, but sometimes we like to pretend they don't exist and so we don't mention them in polite company. Bathrooms are places that help us relate to being in a physical or animal body while living within civilized culture. The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about bathroom dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with bathroom dreams. These are the words that make bathroom dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of bathroom dreams can be illuminating about show bathrooms affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example bathroom dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how bathrooms in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that bathroom is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that bathroom is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, bathroom dreams have more sex than 90.8% of dream symbols, more embarrassment than 85.8% of dream symbols, and more home than 80.9% of dream symbols. On the other hand, bathroom dreams have less natural places than 88.6% of dream symbols, less death than 81.6% of dream symbols, and less disasters than 79.3% of dream symbols. Notably, bathroom dreams are sexy! Dreams of bathrooms are more related to sex than 90% of all of the other dream symbols. Sex in a dream can be great, confusing, digusting, or be just sex. It all depends on the context. Don't assume anything about dreams of bathrooms. Explore what is there. Finally, bathroom dreams are associated with going to the bathroom! This may or may not be surprising. Going to the bathroom is a basic human need, so it makes sense that we dream about it sometimes. Still, this might hold some meaning in the dream. It all depends on the context. Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of bathrooms is different than dreams of bathrooms in general.

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of dreams have bathrooms

How common are bathroom dreams?

5.4% of dreams have the bathrooms symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 20 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is common.

Identification

How are bathroom dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like bathroom, washroom, toilet, etc. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols places and lodging.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of bathrooms?

Bathrooms dreams are notable because they have substantially more showers, toilets, bathroom stalls, peeing, excrement, going to the bathroom, pooping, verbs, mirrors, Ron Weasley, alimony than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of bathrooms?

Bathrooms dreams are notable because they have substantially less antelopes, Fiji, Haiti, Kuwait, Laos, Serbia, Somalia, Uranus, emaciation, Gimli, Legolas than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into bathroom dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in bathroom dreams.

Who is in dreams of bathrooms?

Who is in dreams of bathrooms?

Bathroom dreams are more related to family and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to unnamed people, and less related to fantastic beings.

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What are the emotions in dreams of bathrooms?

What are the emotions in dreams of bathrooms?

Bathroom dreams are more related to embarrassment than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.

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Where do dreams of bathrooms take place?

Where do dreams of bathrooms take place?

Bathroom dreams are more related to home, more related to human-made places, and more related to schools than dreams in general. They are less related to transportation and less related to natural places.

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What happens in dreams of bathrooms?

What happens in dreams of bathrooms?

Dreams of bathrooms are much more related to sex, more related to eating and drinking, and more related to health events than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts, less related to friendly acts, and less related to disasters.

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How do dreams of bathrooms related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of bathrooms related to the type of dream it is?

Bathroom dreams are more related to nightmares, more related to bad dreams, and more related to weird dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to vivid dreams and less related to good dreams.

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How do dreams of bathrooms related the senses?

How do dreams of bathrooms related the senses?

Bathroom dreams

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How can you make sense of bathrooms in dreams?

Bathroom dreams are common. Among other things bathroom dreams are sexual and associated with going to the bathroom. Do you think this is true for your dream of bathrooms? How might your dream of bathrooms be different?

All dreams have meaning

All dreams have meaning

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

Look for the differences

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience bathrooms in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

Return to the feelings

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about bathrooms in dreams. See how you feel about bathrooms now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of bathroom dreams

An interpretation of bathroom dreams

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. A bathroom is a place where you clean up, get ready to go out, take a look at yourself, and expel waste. These uses and functions are used in a dream to create symbolism, such as when cleaning up symbolizes cleaning up your image or behavior. It can mean you’re thinking about the image you project and how you present yourself, and you want to make a good impression. See: Clean The symbolism is often found in what you do in a bathroom, such as bathe or shower. See: Showers Or use a toilet. See: Toilets Or look in a mirror. See: Mirrors Or brush your teeth. See: Teeth A bathroom is where privacy is usually expected, where you have a “private moment,” so being interrupted in a bathroom can symbolize issues related to privacy. See: Being naked This idea extends to include things you want to hide or keep away from public knowledge, including anything shameful or highly personal. For example, the shameful feelings after being sexually assaulted, or suicidal thoughts. A bathroom setting in a dream is often connected with the idea of being rid of something unwanted. For example, a young man at a small college dreams about washing his hands in a restroom after a group of girls barges in. It symbolizes that he’s sick of the dating scene at his school and all the gossip and rumors and wants to “wash his hands” of it all. For more detail about this dream, see: Library. A bathroom is where we assess our appearance and groom, and that use can tie in with self-perceptions and ideas about attractiveness. A bath can symbolize aspects of physical health. The body is made up mostly of water, so water is a sort of barometer for health and a versatile symbol. For example, very hot water can symbolize fever. Cold water can symbolize chills. See: Water A bath in a dream can enact the idiom “take a bath,” meaning a financial loss or something related. “Cleaned out” has similar meaning, and “clean up” can mean a financial windfall. See also: Anuses, Bathroom stalls, Clean, Doors, Emotions, Excrement, Heat, Illness, Intruders, Mirrors, Being naked, Showers, Teeth, Toilets, Undressing, Vomiting, Water, Winter

Examples of dreams of bathrooms

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of bathroom dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for bathroom dreams. Read at your own risk.

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