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What are excrement dreams about?

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 excrement dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how excrement in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that excrement is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that excrement is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, excrement dreams have more smelling than 90.8% of dream symbols, more weird dreams than 89.4% of dream symbols, and more sex than 88.6% of dream symbols. On the other hand, excrement dreams have less vision than 93.9% of dream symbols, less friendly acts than 93.8% of dream symbols, and less love than 93.4% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of excrement have a striking lack of emotion in general. Emotion may be present in dreams of excrement, but it may not be remarked upon. Alternatively, the emotion present in the dream might only a few emotions. Additionally, dreams of excrement lack characters. Excrement dreams contain less characters than 90% of all other dream symbols. This is notable because dreams help us make sense of our social relationships. Dreams almost always contain characters. The lack of characters in excrement might mean something. Furthermore, dreams of excrement are smelly! These dreams have more words related to smells than 90% of all other dream symbols. This is surprising because smelling in dreams is relatively uncommon. Finally, excrement 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 excrement is different than dreams of excrement in general.

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of dreams have excrement

How common are excrement dreams?

0.8% of dreams have the excrement symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 150 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is uncommon.

Identification

How are excrement dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like pee, poop, and excrement. This symbol is part of the summary dream symbols of things.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of excrement?

Excrement dreams are notable because they have substantially more pooping, Fiji, toilets, Estonia, Bolivia, bathrooms, bathroom stalls, Aquaman, Colombia, Guatemala, Madagascar than 95% of other dream symbols.

Least related

What symbols least related to dreams of excrement?

Excrement do not especially suppress any other dream symbols.

Deep dive into excrement dreams

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

Who is in dreams of excrement?

Who is in dreams of excrement?

Excrement dreams are less related to insects, less related to unnamed people, and much less related to fantastic beings.

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What are the emotions in dreams of excrement?

What are the emotions in dreams of excrement?

Excrement 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 excrement take place?

Where do dreams of excrement take place?

Excrement dreams are less related to home, less related to transportation, and much less related to natural places.

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What happens in dreams of excrement?

What happens in dreams of excrement?

Dreams of excrement are more related to sex than dreams in general. They are much less related to aggressive acts, much less related to friendly acts, and less related to disasters.

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

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

Dreams of excrement are more related to weird dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to vivid dreams.

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How do dreams of excrement related the senses?

How do dreams of excrement related the senses?

Excrement dreams are much more related to smelling than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing, much less related to vision, and less related to touch.

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How can you make sense of excrement in dreams?

Excrement dreams are uncommon. Among other things excrement dreams are lacking emotions, lacking characters, focused on smells, and associated with going to the bathroom. Do you think this is true for your dream of excrement? How might your dream of excrement 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 excrement 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 excrement in dreams. See how you feel about excrement now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of excrement dreams

An interpretation of excrement 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. Excrement in a dream can be a graphic way of expressing how you feel about something—a situation, a person, how you are treated, your life. It can symbolize something unwanted that needs to get out of you. It can be a sign that you’re holding onto things that are no good for you. Excrement is the end process of digestion, and “to digest” means to process. In this sense, excrement can symbolize something you processed emotionally or psychologically. The word “shit” is so versatile. You can feel like shit. You can be in a world of shit. You can feel like your ideas or efforts are shit. You can get caught in a shit storm. Shitting in public can mean you publicly humiliate yourself. You “stepped in it” in a very public way. Or you strongly object to something. Dreams can respond to signals in the body, so dreaming about excrement can be a response to the physical feeling of needing to move your bowels. The entry for Devil has a great example of excrement used as symbolism. See also: Anuses, Bathrooms, Devils, Eating, Food, Toilets

Examples of dreams of excrement

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 excrement 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 excrement dreams. Read at your own risk.

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