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What are toilet 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 toilet dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how toilets in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that toilet is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that toilet is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, toilet dreams have more human-made places than 98.4% of dream symbols, more embarrassment than 93.4% of dream symbols, and more weird dreams than 87.2% of dream symbols. On the other hand, toilet dreams have less love than 92.8% of dream symbols, less death than 91.2% of dream symbols, and less friendly acts than 88.1% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of toilets lack characters. Toilet 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 toilet might mean something. Finally, toilet 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 toilets is different than dreams of toilets in general.

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How common are toilet dreams?

1.0% of dreams have the toilets symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 95 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is relatively uncommon.

Identification

How are toilet dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like toilets. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols places and human-made places.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of toilets?

Toilets dreams are notable because they have substantially more pooping, excrement, going to the bathroom, peeing, bathroom stalls, lizard people, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, showers, Kenya, janitors than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of toilets?

Toilets dreams are notable because they have substantially less antelopes, carrots, calluses, Hannibal Lecter, Aquaman, Yoda, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into toilet dreams

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

Who is in dreams of toilets?

Who is in dreams of toilets?

Dreams of toilets 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 toilets?

What are the emotions in dreams of toilets?

Dreams of toilets are much 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 toilets take place?

Where do dreams of toilets take place?

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

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What happens in dreams of toilets?

What happens in dreams of toilets?

Dreams of toilets are more related to sex 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 toilets related to the type of dream it is?

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

Toilet dreams are more related to recurring dreams and more related to weird dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to vivid dreams, and less related to good dreams.

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How do dreams of toilets related the senses?

How do dreams of toilets related the senses?

Toilet dreams are more related to smelling than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing, less related to taste, and less related to vision.

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How can you make sense of toilets in dreams?

Toilet dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things toilet dreams are lacking characters and associated with going to the bathroom. Do you think this is true for your dream of toilets? How might your dream of toilets 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 toilets 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 toilets in dreams. See how you feel about toilets now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of toilet dreams

An interpretation of toilet 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. Using a toilet in a dream can connect with the need to eliminate something from yourself or your life, especially if you vomit, defecate, or urinate into the toilet. For example, you relieve yourself of pressure, burdens, guilt, negativity, high expectations, tension, or stress. Your dreams go through a nightly process of washing that stuff away, at least enough to reset and get you through another day. It’s a physical representation of a personal situation. Toilets are associated with privacy. Using the toilet is supposed to be a private moment. Along that line, being intruded upon while on the toilet can symbolize embarrassment, or feeling vulnerable or exposed. See: Bathrooms, Intruders Dreaming about a toilet can symbolize feeling that something has been dumped on you, such as when a friend dumps all his troubles on you, or a supervisor dumps a load of work on you. A dirty toilet can symbolize a messy situation or dirty feelings. It can symbolize dirty emotions, especially when the water is dirty. A toilet dream can be a way of saying that your mind is in the toilet. Flushing a toilet can be associated with letting go of something, especially pressure or negativity. Toilet symbolism can be created by side associations, such as when a toilet is needed and can’t be found, creating anxiety. Dreams make comparisons that trigger related feelings and emotions, so a dream about being unable to find toilet can connect with a situation in your life making you worried or nervous. Dreaming about a disgusting toilet can connect with your disgust about something. See: Anxiety Toilets are associated with the one place where you can find peace and privacy. It brings to mind the image of the father in a house full of kids who reads a magazine while sitting on the toilet. It might be the only moments of peace and privacy he gets. If you pee or defecate in a dream, first consider the obvious. The dream might reflect the fact that you feel as if you need to use the toilet. Peeing or defecating in public can symbolize vulnerability, embarrassment, or exposure. You did something or showed something about yourself in public that you’d rather not have. See: Being naked Peeing in a way that disrespects a place or person can be an expression of hard feelings. For example, you dream about peeing on someone who insulted you, as a way of expressing your feelings about wanting to return the insult. You pee on a church as a way of saying you don’t respect its teachings. Someone pees on your bed, symbolizing a disrespect or insult that’s personal. A bowel movement can symbolize a period of introspection after breaking off a relationship. You work it out of your system like a bowel movement. Constipation can symbolize holding onto something you should let go. Along this line, a bowel movement is related to digestion, and digestion is used as an analogy for processing experiences, memories, feelings, and emotions. The bowel movement is the tail end of the process, a perfect analogy for the nightly process of discarding unneeded memories. A bowel movement can be a graphic commentary about how you feel about something. To be “shit on” means that someone dumped his problems on you, or treated you disrespectfully. It can be a raw and honest expression of your feelings about yourself, your life, or someone in it as “shit.” See: Excrement A bowel movement in public suggests regret over something said or done that’s publicly known. You showed a shitty side of yourself. A rushing river of brown water or similar imagery can symbolize diarrhea. Exaggerated bowel movements can symbolize moral depravity or extremely dirty thoughts. Shit all over the walls. Piles of it everywhere. These dreams are extremely graphic and reflect the condition of the dreamer’s mind or life. It’s not to say that the imagery automatically has this meaning, but it’s common. A dream about a toilet can come in response to the feeling of needing to urinate or have a bowel movement while asleep. Dreams can create imagery and scenarios based on physical stimuli. Along this line, bowel problems can trigger dreams about toilets. They’re sending strong signals as you sleep and these are translated into your dreams as imagery. See also: Anxiety, Bathrooms, Bathroom stalls, Excrement, Being naked, Showers, Vomiting, Water, Yellow

Examples of dreams of toilets

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 toilet 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 toilet dreams. Read at your own risk.

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