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DREAM STUDIES : Real dreams with toilets in them
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THE DREAM My boyfriend - Jez - and I are in the dream, talking about
eating something and standing next to a fridge. Jez reaches into the fridge
saying he wants some quiche [I had just bought a vegetable quiche the day
before the dream] and opens the packet, but then I see that he has been storing
a big piece of pork pie in the same box as my vegetarian quiche! I go absolutely
ballistic, grab and quiche and throw it at him and storm off. The next thing
I know we are at a school, and I am running away from Jez, very angry, screaming
that I don't want to be with him anymore and we are finished. I run faster
and faster, across a school yard and down a steep concrete ramp, then realise
Jez is catching me up. I keep yelling "SHITHEAD!" at him. Then he's grabbing
my arm, and we bump into Jessica and Tara [two girls I know from last year
at university] and they keep asking me in their Irish voices, "Are you and
Jez going to be living in the same flat again next year?" and Jez keeps saying,
"Yes, yes we are" and I keep screaming, "No! We've broken up! You shithead!"
at him.
I escape Jez and step into a classroom where I know I have an English lesson.
I sit down in my seat, still fuming, and then proceed to wet myself, slowly
but surely, all over the chair. Then I realise I'm too angry to concentrate
in the lesson so I get up and carefully put on my coat so no one can tell
I've wet myself, although there is a big puddle of urine on my chair. I storm
out, bumping into the teacher [who happens to be Miss Hodgson from my secondary
school] and she asks me what I'm doing. By now I'm crying and I push her out
the way saying I have to go.
I head to a toilet and go straight into a cubicle and shut the door. Then
I sit on the loo and take a shit. In the toilet also, as it's a public one
in the school, is another girl in the cubicle next to me. She is crying and
standing outside her cubicle is a woman I recognise as a teacher [possibly
from my secondary school also but I can't remember her name in real life].
The woman seems to be comforting the girl. The girl is upset for some reason
to do with her parents, not because they have split up but because of some
other reason which I can't remember. The teacher is telling the girl that
she went through the same thing when she was her age, telling her a long story
about the pain she too went through, and is trying to coax her out and calm
her down. The girl keeps crying and crying, sobbing and yelping. I finish
my business and come out of the cubicle to wash my hands (I distinctly remember
without flushing!). As I am washing them, the girl goes quiet. The woman starts
to get agitated and worried, calling the girl's name and asking is she all
right.
When she gets no response the woman opens the cubicle door. The girl has dark
hair. She is sitting on the toilet seat with her arms crossed across her chest
like a corpse in a coffin. Her skin is an odd shade of blue and her eyes are
open wide, staring blankly directly at me. Blood is slowly running down her
arms, streams and streams of blood, and I can see that while the teacher was
talking to her the girl was slitting her wrists. There is no weapon or razor
or anything, I just know that she had one and that she used it to kill herself.
THE REALITY The dreamer had been having lots of arguments recently with her
boyfriend. In fact she was coming to the conclusion that the relationship
had no future. She argued the day before the dream as her boyfriend had shown
disregard for her vegetarian diet by placing meats on top of her foods in
the fridge. She had also wanted to experience a wider social life with more
friends in general. She was realising that she wanted to end the relationship
but was scared of hurting her boyfriends feelings.
THE INTERPRETATION Dreams are about emotions and there are no prizes for saying
this dream is linked to her relationship with her boyfriend. Its clearly been
on her mind and been dominating her thinking recently. But the trick is to
see just how the symbolism works. We have a good idea how she is feeling so
some evidence of those feelings should emerge in the symbolism.
Clearly the dream starts off in reality. She was very angry when her boyfriend
placed meat products on her vegetarian quiche. Its a blatant disregard for
her feelings and her own personality as vegetarian foods should not be mixed.
So clearly this is a starting point to the dream and shows the situation as
it is - her anger at him in day to day life over a specific issue.
The dream then moves on to these two girls. They friends whom the dreamer
would like to make time to meet a lot more. They represent a link with the
outside world(outside the relationship). The dreamer has clearly shown that
she wishes to expand her social life so maybe the dreamer is asking the question
"can I expand my social life within the relationship I am in". They
are also clearly asking the question can the relationship continue. After
all if they are not to be living in the same flat then the relationship will
have ended. Clearly the dreamer has her doubts as she says she will not be
living with her boyfriend. But, she also shows that she is aware that her
boyfriend wants to continue the relationship as he answers differently.
The dream features both a school and a teacher. Schools are usually less positive
symbols as they show you realising that some aspect of your life or behavior
is failing. Teachers tend to be more positive as they symbolise an awareness
of the answer.
Yet the dream ends with this suicide. Suicides tend to link not to the act
of suicide but to the emotions so they show that you have totally given up.
But usually suicide dreams will only relate to you giving up on some aspect
or issue in your life. Here the dream shows that she has totally given up
on her relationship and its ability to provide her peace of mind.
The corpse and blue skin show that the dream is going to carry on in her relationship.
Yet she is not happy and in fact has died inside. The blue skin could suggest
how she is become used to the arguments and desensitized to bad feelings.
She sees her problems but feels unable to escape the situation. She had never
broken up with a guy before in such a deep relationship.
Toilets tend to link to bad experiences and the fact that she cannot flush
suggests that she is not making efforts to get rid of bad feelings and experiences.
DREAM SYMBOLISM
BLUE SKIN : "Becoming desensitized to bad feelings in her relationship"
CORPSE : "She is dying within herself whilst in this relationship"
GIRL : "female emotions such as her own peace of mind"
SCHOOL : "Realising that something is failing"
SUICIDE : "A situation where she has totally given up(on her relationship)
and cannot do anything more"
TEACHER : "An awareness of the solution that is required (e.g. leave
her boyfriend)"
TOILET : "Unable to flush away the bad experiences because she is unwilling
to leave"
TWO : "A choice between two alternatives - stay with her boyfriend or
leave"
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I have been arguing continually with my boyfriend. I realise what
I need to do - break up with him. But I find it difficult to break up relationships.
I know I am going to probably continue to be unhappy"
See how the Symbolic meanings weave together to form a key insight
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DREAM TIP : Think of something bad that happened on the day before
the dream. If you had a toilet in your dreams last night then its likely that
this is an attempt to flush away the bad memory of those bad feelings.
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THE DREAM - I am in this university. I am having a conference in this
room. I am asked to take a seat. I do but near the edge of the table not near
too many people. I am wondering where the toilet is. It is upstairs. I think
of going but do not. I mention that there are five people there for security
- one from the military, one from the police, the secret service.
THE REALITY The previous day the dreamer met up with an old friend from college.
It was an embarrassing moment as they were both showing each other what they
had done. It was a case of outdoing each other. At the same moment an ex girlfriend
was present. The dream captured many of the emotions from the dream. There
was a sense of nervousness. The toilet is a symbol of frustration and the
need to let go of bad emotions.
THE INTERPRETATION Security in dreams often deals with moments when you are
on your guard. In this situation the dreamer was meeting an old college friend
and it was in many ways a case of seeing who had done best in life. Initially
the dreamer felt a little anxious and this probably represented his wanting
to know where the toilet was. Toilets are often symbols of frustrations and
bad emotions. In this case the toilet was upstairs. The upstairs often symbolises
your imagination. That symbolised how this feeling of nervousness was purely
in his imagination.
The situation was one where he felt on his guard and maybe felt lacking confidence
in meeting an old friend from college. The security issues being on his guard
for feelings of anxiety. However, once he realised that his friend was not
trying to outdo him his anxiety about the situation was reduced.
Symbolic Meanings
MAN : "a situation where you feel pressured"
POLICE : " a feeling that he was under investigation "
SECURITY : "the dreamer was feeling under threat - and was very cautious about
what he said to his old college friend because it would reveal how unsuccessful
he had become"
TOILET : "The dreamer felt a real sense of embarrassment because he felt a
failure compared to his successful college friend"
UPSTAIRS : "your imagination at work - your fears and worries"
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I bumped into an old friend from college yesterday. I was a bit embarrassed
because I do not think I have really made a success of my life. I felt embarrassed
for a while but he was OK about things."
See how the Symbolic meanings weave together to form a key insight
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DREAM TIP : During the day we store everything that happens in short
term memory. Then atnight we work through these new feelings. At the same
time we reshape our emotions and integrate these new feelings into long term
memory banks. Finally we clear short term memory banks ready to start the
whole process again. This is very important to understand dreams. They represent
the ways in which our feelings have been reshaped by the previous day.
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THE DREAM - I am rushing to the toilet. Finally I get there and I am
about to let go and I realize that the toilet has windows on every side. People
are looking in. I suddenly take fright and cannot go - I have to hold it in.
THE REALITY The previous day the dreamer was caught in an awkward situation.
He felt very frustrated but because the public nature of the situation did
not want to show that frustration. He had made an error and did not like to
deal with admitting this in public.
THE INTERPRETATION Toilets are symbols of our frustrations and so this dream
was about some public situation where the dreamer felt awkward. Often we do
not want to let go of our bad emotions in vulnerable moments.
Symbolic Meanings
PEOPLE : "issues regarding human behavior"
TOILET : "a feeling of embarrassment and vulnerability"
WINDOW : "everything is open to view - the dreamer realises he cannot
show his frustration because people will see it and that will make the situation
worse"
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I felt really under pressure yesterday. But I did not like to show
my frustration as I knew that people were watching."
See how the Symbolic meanings weave together to form a key insight
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DREAM TIP : Try to remember what you thought of when you wake up. Often
we will wake up and immediately think of some subject. Dreams represent your
thoughts and feelings. So any feelings which are dominating your waking mind
are very important. They may link to the dreams meaning.
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THE DREAM - I am in this room. I think there are women there or at
least it seems to be a room filled with female energy. I hear this message
- not quite a voice - its just a thought which seems to project into my mind.
It says - feel free to talk about anything - any urgent problem at all.
THE REALITY The dreamer woke up with an intense need to go to the toilet.
He was very uncomfortable.
THE INTERPRETATION Often dreams where you want to go to the toilet will be
quite humorous. They never seem to repeat. In this case there was an urgent
problem - an intensely urgent problem. The dreamer had to go to the toilet.
The dreamer actually woke up and tried to remember his dream. That was the
meaning of the female energy in the room. The urgent problem was the need
to go to the toilet.
Symbolic Meanings
FEMALE : "the dreamers female energy - a wish to understand and remember his
dream"
URGENT PROBLEM : "its obvious what the problem was - the need to go to
the toilet"
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I woke up and started to try to remember my dream. But really I had
to get up and go to the toilet"
See how the Symbolic meanings weave together to form a key insight
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DREAM TIP : Where you lying awake thinking about something before going
to sleep. If thats the case your dream may link to the subject you were thinking
about.
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THE DREAM I see my girlfriend. She is in a wheelchair. She orders me
to get into a very cold bath.
THE REALITY The next day the dreamer was cold shouldered by his girlfriend.
She ignored him that day and for a few days afterwards.
THE INTERPRETATION This can quite easily be seen as a telepathic dream or
a dream involving some kind of precognition. The very next day the dreamers
girlfriend suddenly stopped talking. She would not communicate in any way.
Water often symbolises things which involve our minds. That can easily signify
the emotional connection that exists in close relationships. However, cold
water symbolises a lack of activity or lack of anything happening. In that
way this symbolises the slow pace of affairs. Baths are symbolic of what we
do in baths. We lie there and think through things. That signified the way
the dreamers girlfriend had made him think - simply because she refused to
talk to him. The wheelchair in this case was also symbolic. It showed how
the dreamers girlfriend had disabled something - she had restricted all opportunities
to talk.
Symbolic Meanings
BATH : "time to think about what you have done"
COLD : "a total lack of momentum - the dreamers girlfriend starts acting in
a very cold distant way"
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I think this was a premonition of how my girlfriend treated me on
the next day. She just totally cut me off. "
See how the Symbolic meanings weave together to form a key insight
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DREAM TIP : Try to write down several quotes which capture your feelings
right now E.g. "I feel unable to talk to my daughter about things. She seems
unwilling to communicate". dreams link to conceptual emotions forming within
our mind. Any quotes you write down are highly likely to capture your dreams
symbolic meaning.
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THE DREAM I had this dream early. It made me very upset and I couldn't shake
the feelings of horror and frustration and helplessness for hours.
I am in a strange house - not mine nor is it similar to anyone's I know. The
walls are light gray; the carpet is light gray; in the bathroom the tiles
are light gray. In this house are several people who are familiar but not
quite real people. There are a group of 4-5 preteen kids, including one that
seems to be my brother (who is certainly not that age any longer). There are
a few adults there as well, including one that seems to be a cross between
my mother and my husband's grandmother, who recently passed away - yet this
person is neither of them and I get the feeling that I really don't know the
people in this house. There are three main areas in the house where my dream
takes place: a large living room type room (where the "adults" congregate);
a bedroom (which is distinctly mine); and a bathroom. There seems to be no
direct light source anywhere in any room; the light just seems indistinct
and grayish. The bedroom is large but empty except for a bed area - layers
of blankets on the floor, that also hang from the ceiling to form a sort of
canopy. On the sides of this canopy are stands of brightly colored round beads
interspersed with thin, cylindrical white beads. There are stuffed animals
and figurines, etc. nestled within this bed area. The bedding itself is white
and gray and very soft; the main quilt or covering (including what is attached
to the ceiling and above my head is a deep red satiny fabric. During the course
of this dream, I am overwhelmed with a dreadful sense of urgency, I need to
get ready for something and leave this place (possibly for work?) and I also
have to care for a "baby", but whether this "baby" is a human baby or a baby
animal is unclear, I can never get a clear look at it. No one is willing to
help me. I need to take a shower, but the bathroom has been utterly destroyed
by the preteen brats, who have plugged up the toilet and clogged the shower
and there's 6 inches of water in the bathroom. I am angry at this but the
kids just laugh at me. Then they take the "baby" and throw it into the water,
which fills me with shock and terror. I search through the water (which is
dark and has lots of garbage floating in it) to rescue the "baby". I explode
in rage and chase after the kids and yell at them for treating the "baby"
in such a terrible way. They just laugh at me. I go to the other "adults"
and plead with them to discipline the kids for (1) destroying the bathroom
and (2) for trying to drown the "baby". The adults laugh at me and dismiss
my anger as if it were nothing. Disgusted and anxious because I need to get
ready, I return to my bedroom and find that the kids have placed the "baby"
in my bed and dumped water and garbage all over it. Furious, I take care of
the "baby" and clean up the mess, everything is soaked. I manage to take a
shower and get ready. Finally, I emerge from the bathroom, and the kids are
gone. It seems to be late in the day, like evening. It seems like it is darker.
In the main room now are both of my sisters-in-law, and a few other people
that I don't recognize. Disconcerted, I return to the bedroom, which now has
more furniture in it, such as shelves, a desk and a chair. Everything has
frilly ruffles and lots of cutesy things that suggest it was meant for a little
girl or something. Suddenly, my sister-in-law comes in to the bedroom and
starts rambling. I notice while she is babbling that certain things are missing
from the room. I ask her where the "baby" is. She says she doesn't know. She
leaves the room and I begin to frantically search for the "baby". I also notice
that several of my possessions are broken or defaced. Somehow I know that
my sister in law has something to do with it all. I confront her. She gets
very angry, how can I accuse her of such things, all that sort of stuff. I
return to my bedroom. I am laying across my bed on my stomach, racking my
brain to figure out what happened to the "baby" and why is my sister in law
doing all these things to me. Suddenly, my sister in law comes running into
my bedroom, jumps on my back, grabs me around the neck, and forces a pill
into my mouth. It is very bitter and I somehow know that it is poison. I spit
it out and grab her as she tries to run away and hold her down. I show her
the pill and ask her why is she trying to hurt me? She tells me that I deserve
it and that she's not sorry that she destroyed my things or that she hid the
"baby" or that she tried to poison me. She says that she's happy that I know
she wants to kill me and that she will never give up trying to hurt me in
any way she can. I ask her why, why is she doing this? I tell her that J**,
my husband & her brother, will be angry with her for doing all this. She says
she doesn't care, it's for his own good. She struggles and tries to get free
but I hold her still. I even punch her and put my hands around her neck to
hold her still. She laughs and tried to shove another pill in my mouth. She
tells me it's poison and that she wants me to die. I tell her that I will
show J** the pills as proof of what she's doing. She laughs again and says
that she will tell him that I tried to poison her and that he will believe
her, not me. Then she says that I don't deserve to have nice things and I
don't deserve to have J** as my husband. She says that he will be happy when
I am dead. I tell her that J** won't believe her, that he will believe me.
She laughed like a demon in my face, then I woke up. I was sweating and my
stomach was in knots when I woke up. Please note that I have absolutely no
problems with my family or my in-laws, we are a very close family, although
my
THE REALITY The day of the dream the sister in law who appeared in the dream
contacted the dreamer and asked her for some money.
THE INTERPRETATION Premonitions can feature remarkable syncronicity. And premonitions
can link to very specific time periods. In most cases premonitions are about
the very day of the dream. So any important events linking to the actual day
of the dream are always worth noting. But in this dream they also deal with
someone who appears in the dream(the sister in law).
The home is often symbolic of your own personality. The various rooms deal
with various parts of your life. The shower will tend to link with your ability
to cleanse yourself of bad feelings - to wash away frustrations. The bedroom
is also an intensely personal symbol. So activity in these too rooms will
often deal with personal frustrations and issues that are taken very personally.
Money is always an issue that can cause trouble. So that issue is certainly
one that could cause havoc. It divides the wife and husband in that the wife
may not wish to support the husbands side of the family in the same way that
she would come to the rescue of her own family.
The dream features general havoc within the dreamers home and that is pretty
much what the real life issue caused in the dreamers own mind. Its probably
difficult to say what each specific symbol links to in this premonition but
it all seems to fit together.
The poison in the dream is certainly very telling. On the very day of the
dream her relationship with her sister in law was certainly poisoned. Previously
she was sympathetic towards her sister in laws troubles. But when someone
starts to ask for money then that sympathy can often disappear. So perhaps
the dream actually picks up on a relationship that has been soured. It captures
the change in relationship. Previously the dreamer felt able to show her sympathy
but as soon as the problem became her own and she was expected to donate money
to help this sister in law then her feelings changed.
The dream also deals with adults and children so perhaps the dream is about
responsibility. Having to look after a baby that is not your own suggests
that the dream is linked to some feeling of burden. So together the baby and
the adults suggests that the dreamer is glimpsing the next day and how her
sister in laws burdens and responsibilities have suddenly shifted and become
hers.
Symbolic Meanings
ADULT : "accepting responsibility - the dreamers sister in law needs to accept
responsibility for her own situation"
BABY : "having a problem dumped on you"
BED : "a very private symbol - the dreamers sister in law makes a very personal
appeal for help"
DROWN : "overwhelmed by issue"
LITTLE GIRL : "the sister in law - little girl lost and in need of help"
POISON : "this situation poisons the relationship"
STUFFED ANIMALS : "a simplistic view of love"
YELL : "need to express anger"
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I think this dream is a premonition of the next day. My sister in
law asked me for some money to help sort out some troubles. This was getting
out of hand and I really did not want to help. Before she asked for money
I had been quite sympathetic"
See how the Symbolic meanings weave together to form a key insight
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DREAM TIP : The easiest way to interpret dreams is to wait until something
big happens in your life. If you simply could not stop thinking about something
all day or got in some argument then you are almost bound to dream about it.
So look carefully at any dreams that night. You almost certainly know what
the topic of the dream is. The dreams meaning will almost certainly capture
some new conclusions relating to this issue.
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THE DREAM I am at my grandmothers home(she died many years ago). I
go to the toilet. It appears to be like a public toilet and is absolutely
huge. I go back downstairs and there appears to be my grandmother but also
an unknown man.
THE REALITY The dreamer had been having some building work completed at his
home. It had all been a bit hectic and disruptive. But now this was all over.
THE INTERPRETATION The main thought in this dreamers mind was the building
work which had just been completed. He now looked forward to some more settled
home life. The dream does not immediately seem to link to this issue. But
it appears at least consistent with it.
Grandmothers can link to an issue that has gone on for far too long(that would
certainly link into the dreamers belief that things had gone on far too long).
A grandmother can also link simply with the passage of time. Its about your
reflections over some recent time period.
Toilets are usually not good symbols. They symbolise you feeling a need to
show frustration. Public toilets can mean that you feel exposed and having
to experience difficult emotions in public. The dreamer did feel this. He
did not like the building work and its disruption. He just liked a quiet life.
Symbolic Meanings
GRANDMOTHER : "the passage of time - something has gone on for too long -
in this case the building work has gone on for too long"
MAN : "frustration connected to some delay or restriction placed upon you
- in this case the frustrations over building work which is disrupting things"
PUBLIC TOILET : "feeling really frustrated whilst in a vulnerable and public
situation - the dreamer did not want to appear so frustrated with the work
going on but in fact he really hated it"
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "It has taken ages. But at last the building work is over and we can
get back to normal"
See how the Symbolic meanings weave together to form a key insight
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DREAM TIP : Dreams ask questions of us. So if a dream features the
death of your boyfriend then maybe your mind is simply asking the question
- How would I feel if my boyfriend ended our relationship?
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THE DREAM anyway it was almost morning when I had this dream. I had
to pee very badly so I got up and went to the bath room. Only my best friend's
in-laws were sleeping in the bathroom floor. So I went back to her son's room.
Only, now my best friend and her husband were in the bed which had grown like
five feet wider or so. It was a really huge bed (really just a twin bed).
so I got back under the covers too. They were talking to each other and I
still had to pee. So I reached over and grabbed a trash can. I told them that
if they heard any weird noises to not look over. And this was a tall kitchen
trash can and maneuvered my butt over the can and just let it go. It was really
loud and lasted forever and filled the can to the brim. Lol and then I had
to get rid of it. So I got up and carried the trash can out of the room. I
ran into the father in law while I was in the hall way and some of the pee
sloshed out of the can and landed on my grandma's cricket chair. (She really
has a cricket chair, it squeaks when you sit in it and sounds like a cricket.
Lol) and I am so embarrassed and try to clean it up hoping he won't realize
that it is actually pee. I find a bottle of cleaner that is a combination
of 409 and something else. And I start cleaning it up with a white washcloth
and wondering why the cloth doesn't turn yellow, and hoping the father in
law doesn't smell urine. Lol then I finally woke up and went to the bathroom.
THE REALITY The dreamer was spending the night at her best friend's house.
They had gone to a concert that night and she stayed over. The dreamer wanted
to go to the toilet very badly when she awoke. Her friend was a bit funny
about what she flushed down the toilet(she has a septic tank). So the dream
was related to the dreamer having to negotiate her friends very fussy beliefs
about toilets.
THE INTERPRETATION Sometimes its a bit awkward using someone else's toilet
especially in the middle of the night when you cannot ask for permission.
In this case the dreamers best friend had previously been very fussy about
what should be flushed down the toilet.
The cricket chair is a symbol of something that makes a very obvious sound.
And when you wake up in the middle of the night the sound is very obvious
when you go to the toilet.
Symbolic Meanings
CRICKET CHAIR : "her grandmothers chair makes a creaking noise - maybe
this symbolised the extremely conspicuous noise the dreamer would make whilst
in someone else's house"
URINE : "the real life need to go to the toilet"
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I woke up at my friends house after staying overnight after a concert.
She can be a bit funny about toilets as she has a skeptic tank. I guess I
was a bit freaked out about waking up in a strange house. I was desperate
to go so I was going to have to do it"
See how the Symbolic meanings weave together to form a key insight
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DREAM TIP : When we go to sleep we will occasionally be very upset
about some issue. Maybe someone at work managed to really wind you up and
you were simply unable to get the bad feelings related to this out of your
mind. Its only when you woke up that you felt cleansed. In such situations
think of your dreams as your minds way of cleansing you of bad feelings.
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THE DREAM I don't know if it was one long dream or a lot of little
dreams, but last night, my first real boyfriend was with me in every one.
In one dream/part, we were in a school gym. I think a basketball game was
going on. I had to use the bathroom, so we went into the bathroom together.
We left the door open so we could still see the game and I could see over
the stall wall. I couldn't 'go' for some reason. An old man and an old old
woman came into the bathroom and they closed the door. They talked to us for
a while but I can't remember what they said. I didn't seem to be embarrassed
about sitting on the toilet the whole time. I finally went although I don't
remember doing it. But I got up and the evidence was there. It was huge and
I remember wondering how that came out of me. Lol
Then my old boyfriend and I were at his house. It was different than his real
house. It looked old and neglected. His parents weren't around so we went
to his room. I was lying on his bed, wishing he would make a move. But the
longer I looked at him, the younger he got. So we just talked. He told me
that he wanted to be a marine. We talked about all the physical things he
would have to do to get through basic training. I mentioned push-ups, sit-ups
and the hanging bar thing were your arms are curled and your chin is above
the bar. I said the real name in the dream but I can't remember what it is
now. He made the motion, pretended to be doing it, so I knew he knew what
I was talking about. Then I think he went to exercise because I was alone
in his room. I started looking around and I found some of my old school reports.
(Some I remember actually writing!) I didn't know if I had given them to him
or if he took them, but after a few minutes, I was all right with him having
them. I went into the living room/dining room. His parents and grandma were
sitting at a table. I went to kiss his grandma good-bye and she moved away
from me. Said that if I kissed her, it would hurt her face. So I went to just
hug her and she said a hug would hurt her shoulders. Then a car pulled into
the driveway really fast and the table they were sitting at was now in the
drive way, and the car pinned the grandma in her chair against the table.
I asked her if it hurt and she said yeah. The car backed up, the grandma got
up, and a lady got out of the car. I don't remember much about her. I walked
away. The step-dad reached down into a hole in the pavement and pulled out
a lady's knee-high or thigh-high stocking. It had either two potatoes or two
onions in it. I couldn't tell which, but he was going to put them in some
stew. I walked through the house and heard the step dad tell the little brother
to stop watching TV and to go outside and play. TV was ruining his eyes and
costing them too much money for glasses.
Then I was outside and my family was sitting around another table in another
driveway. My old boyfriend was sitting on someone's lap. I think it was my
older brother's. They were all playing a card game. I don't know what kind.
My sister asked for two more cards but she didn't discard any. My old boyfriend
was holding his cards backward so that everyone could see them. I told him
that, so he turned them around and then my brother could see them. I kept
wondering why he was sitting on my brother's lap. He was a teenage boy, not
a child. But he seemed to be having fun, so I didn't say anything. I just
stood there smiling, watching him play and laugh and then I woke up.
THE REALITY The evening before the dream the dreamer spoke about this first
boyfriend to her daughter. She was talking about her early boyfriends. They
averaged one per year except for this boyfriend who lasted two years. This
was a subject which is sensitive for the dreamer since her first love killed
himself. She ended the relationship because of peer pressure - he did not
have much money and some people thought he was a geek. The suicide of her
first boyfriend maybe contributed to a period of severe depression that she
suffered.
THE INTERPRETATION If we talk about something that happened some years ago
then we may start to open up old feelings. The dream may deal with how we
are starting to dig up old issues. It starts off as a toilet dream - toilets
often show us feeling extreme moments of pain. In the dream the dreamer could
not go even though she was sat on the toilet. That perhaps captures the moment
in reality. In real life she was talking to her daughter about an issue which
was painful. Yet she could not really show her frustration and pain because
she was talking only about the sanitized version of this issue. She was having
to tone down the subject which dealt with a lot of painful memories.
Old people in dreams often link to the passage of time and so this dream symbolises
the passage of time and how the dreamer is reflecting over the issue.
Perhaps the school reports are symbols of how well she performed or how badly
she performed. In real life she perhaps made a major mistake in dumping her
first boyfriend and is perhaps ashamed of submitting to peer pressure. Its
easy in hindsight to criticize yourself if you treat someone badly and they
subsequently commit suicide.
Brothers are symbols of strong support. So perhaps this dream links to the
dreamer wondering what would have happened if she had supported him more and
not casually dumped him. The cards also fit in with this interpretation as
they are a symbol of chance. They show the dreamer wondering what would have
happened if the cards had fallen differently and she had acted in a different
way.
The dream may also have dealt with the precise way that he died. He shot himself
but some say it was an accident. Indeed the dream focused on how he was not
a child(so why was he sitting like a child on my brothers knee). That perhaps
symbolises how he had the choice to act and was not a child. Even if the dreamer
had tried to support him more life is not like that. People make choices and
teenage boys will clearly reject help for emotional support.
Symbolic Meanings
BATHROOM : "feelings of shame - admitting your errors - the dreamer is thinking
about her own errors and bad feelings in this first love affair"
BED : "a very personal symbol - having to talk about personal matters to her
daughter "
CARDS : "the hand that is dealt to you - your opportunities - here she is
maybe exploring what may have happened if things had been different"
SISTER : "think openly and freely on a subject - exploring your emotions in
an open and honest way - the talk with her daughter opened up some long forgotten
emotions "
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I was talking about my first boyfriend to my daughter yesterday. I
had to sanitize the story because he ended up killing himself. I think the
dream also opened up some old feelings."
See how the Symbolic meanings weave together to form a key insight
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DREAM TIP : As you learn to understand your dreams you will find that
they really tend to go over the same ground over and over again. Dreams concentrate
on issues important to you. If your work is important then the dreams will
represent your strategies towards work projects. If your relationship is dominating
your thinking then it will dominate your dreams. If you are very paranoid
then its likely that your dreams represent paranoias.
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THE DREAM I was in a hospital room. I wasn't sick. I was just moving
around cleaning, helping out. It seemed like I was a type of volunteer or
something. There was a man in a bed. He was probably in his mid 30's. He looked
healthy but was wearing a hospital gown. At the end of the room there were
3 people watching and crying. They were obviously his family. A nurse came
into the room. The man started struggling and crying out that he didn't want
to die. The nurse silently walked to him and injected a substance into his
IV I stood there shocked watching this. I started yelling that they were putting
him down like a dog. The nurse turned to me and said, very coldly, "he's only
going to die anyway" I ran to him to stop her and tripped and fell. I fell
at the end of the bed and the next thing I knew I was covered in a warm liquid.
I looked up and saw I was completely covered in his excrement! His bowls and
bladder had let go all over me at the end of the bed. I just kept screaming
"you killed him. Why? Why did you kill him?" His family just sat in the corner
and cried and cried. Then I woke up.
THE REALITY The dreamer is a volunteer who is teaching 42 year old illiterate
man how to read. The lessons have been going so well that she has won an award
for it. On the evening of the dream she had just finished an exhausting session
with him. She had been thinking a lot about him recently about how he had
put his faith in her.
THE INTERPRETATION The dream features the dreamer as a volunteer so its a
fair assumption to say that this dream may link to her voluntary work helping
this man learn to read. So how can the symbols work.
The symbols include this dog which is being put down. Dreams may use direct
word plays and this may capture the feeling how this man has been put down.
He is casually dismissed by society. He is rejected as having no abilities
and any resources devoted to him are wasted. So thats why his family are putting
him down. It is because society puts him down.
In the dream she is covered in excrement. That symbolises a release within
the man that the dreamer helps. He looks at her and all his frustrations built
up over years are released. That is why she is covered in excrement.
So the dream then captures the dreamers thoughts about the man she is helping.
She recognises his total faith in her and how she is the first person who
has helped him. Up until this time society has put him down. Yet now all those
frustrations have exploded out in one go. She is basically realising how important
this help is.
Symbolic Meanings
BED : "a very personal relationship"
EXCREMENT : "the student releases years of frustration by putting his
total faith in the dreamer"
HOSPITAL : "improving the health of something - in this case improving
the mans self esteem"
PUTTING DOWN the DOG : "the dreamers student has for years been dismissed
and put down by society"
DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer
- "I have been helping a man to learn to read and write. I think he is
so grateful. For years he has been put down and no one has believed in him.
Its like all the bad emotions emotions have been stored up. I am opening the
flood gates"
See how the Symbolic meanings weave together to form a key insight
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DREAM STUDIES : TOILET
TOILETS : Toilets can often link to bad experiences we have just had,
embarrassing problems, emotional situations, bad events and intense fears.
There maybe a good clue in the dream. If you go to the toilet it will usually
suggest you have just got over some bad experience. But if you have clogged
up toilets or unflushed toilets it may suggest that you cannot get out of
the bad experience or gain a sense of relief afterwards.
KEY WORDS(Pick a quote which captures your feelings right now. Think especially
of the day before the dream) :
- "that was so embarrassing"
- "overwhelming problems"
- "continuous bad feelings"
- "frustrations about something"
- "I am feeling nervous about it"
- "I was scared"
- "it was shocking"
- "all those bad times and frustrations"
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ESSAYS
TOILETS
in dreams : A detailed essay on the symbolism of toilets in dreams
BASEMENTS
in dreams : A study of real dreams exploring the meaning of basements
KITCHENS
in dreams : What do kitchens mean in a study of real dreams
HOUSES
in dreams : A study of real dreams into the meaning of houses
Dream
Dictionary : An A to Z of symbolic meanings with every meaning for each symbol
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INDIVIDUAL STUDIES : Below are collections of real dreams all linked to one dream symbol. They are examples to show you how symbols translate into real life dream thoughts and feelings.
Basements : A study into their dream symbolism
Your boss : A collection of real dreams
Best friend : The Dream dictionary symbolism
Babies/pregnant: Demonstration of how to interpret dreams
Brothers: A study into their dream symbolism
Cafes: How to analyse and interpret this symbol
Cars: Their various dream meanings
Castles : The Dream dictionary symbolism
Children:Childhood dreams
Creative dreams: Interpret its true symbolism
Clothes:Research into the dream meanings
Churches and cathedrals:A study into their dream symbolism
Deaths: Demonstration of how to interpret dreams
Demons,witches and goblins: A collection of real dreams
Dogs: A collection of dog dreams
Drink and drugs: Their dream dictionary meanings
Earthquakes and volcanoes: Research into the dream meanings
Farms, gardens and plants: Practical dream interpreting
Factories: A study into their dream symbolism
Fathers: Their various dream meanings
Faucets/taps/pipes: Their dream dictionary meanings
Food: A collection of real dreams
Earthquakes and volcanos: The Dream dictionary symbolism
Foreign Countries: Their dream dictionary meanings
Grandparents: Understanding their dream symbolism
Guards: A collection of guard dreams
Guns and knives: Practical dream interpreting
Horses and animals : Research into their true symbolism in dreams
Hauntings:Dreams interpreted and analysed
Hospitals: Practical dream interpreting
Hotels + huge buildings: A study into their dream symbolism
Houses : Research into the dream meanings
Locks : A collection of lock dreams
Men(unknown) : Understanding the dream symbolism
Military : Practical dream interpreting
Money : Research into the dream meanings
Mothers : as dream symbols
Monster : understanding their symbolism in dreams
Mountains: Their various dream meanings
Movies:A study into their dream symbolism
Music : A study into their dream symbolism
People : Understanding the dream symbolism
Police : Their various dream meanings
Phone : Demonstration of how to interpret dreams
Politics : A collection of real dreams
Planes and flying : A study into their dream symbolism
Prison : Research into the dream meanings
Rivers : Their dream dictionary meanings
Rapists and intruders :Understanding the dream symbolism
Railways : Their various dream meanings
Roads : Understanding their symbolism in dreams
Schools : How to analyse and interpret this symbol
Sea : The Dream dictionary symbolism
Sex : A study into their dream symbolism
Shops : examples of real shop dreams
Sisters : Practical dream interpreting
Skies in dreams :Research into the dream meanings
Skyscrapers: Understanding the dream symbolism
Snakes and spiders :Dreams interpreted and analysed
Space : Their dream dictionary meanings
Sports : A collection of real dreams
Street Understanding the dream symbolism
Teeth :Research into the dream meanings
Tidal waves :How to analyse and interpret this symbol
Time Research into the dream meanings
Toilets Understanding their symbolism in dreams
Tornadoes - what do they mean in dreams
Towns Their dream dictionary meanings
Trees : trees in practical dream interpretation
Water : Dreams interpreted and analysed
Weddings and engagements : Demonstration of how to interpret dreams
ON-LINE BOOK
- INTRODUCTION
- DREAM DICTIONARY
- How to interpret dreams
- Audio Presentation on how to interpret dreams
OTHER SUBJECTS:
- external dreams
Music in dreams
-Premonitions
- Telepathy : esp dreams investigated
- Specific dreams
- Synonyms in dreams
- Children's dreams and dreams about your child
- Recurring dreams
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