Association:
Elimination & refuse from the past.
Question:
What I’m willing to forget?
General Meanings:
Excrement (excreta, feces, urine) often points to an immature personality, perhaps also on appropriate sexual perversions which arise from the immaturity. The dream of feces shows that the dreamer returns to childish forms of expression and amusement. Possibly, it has not come out on the unconscious level about the feeling, that everything what has to do with bodily functions is dirty and self-centered.
- Welfare – In old dream books the excrement is understood as a symbol of prosperity and happiness.
- New creation – Excrement in the dream is available for certain aspects in the life of the dreamer, which he has “to use up” and “to sort out”. Also you can see the note in it, that you should take advantage of the previous experience, that you left behind, to connect them to create new elements.
- Worries and Fear – Dream that you’re playing with excrement, can be a symbol of money and valuables and also expresses financial troubles or fear of responsibility.
- Wish of free life – The emptying of the intestine usually stands for the wish of the dreamer to live without having responsibilities and concerns or reduce his inhibitions. In addition, the bowel movement can symbolize the sexual act.
- Rejection of personality – If you see yourself with soiled excrement, this can express self-refusal and disgust, because you cannot accept parts of your own personality;
- Stuck in the past – Constipation, the retention of feces, symbolizes an inability to let go of the past or previous behaviors. The dreamer looks that he “got stuck” in his behavior.
- Manage impulses – If excrement is from animals this means that the dreamer is responsible for how he handles with his impulses.
Spiritual Meanings:
Get rid of bad emotions – At this level excrement in a dream symbolizes spiritual expression. The dreamer yearns to get rid of bad feelings or to transform it into something valuable.
Traditional Meanings:
European (Judeo-Christian)
- Relief If excrete – Soon you will be able to feel a clear relief in a current affair or situation;
- Fear If feel or get dirty like this – Your conscious says that you’re afraid of not to be accepted by others;
- Riddance If work with your own feces – You want to free yourself from mental ballast or annoying circumstances;
- Good sign If see or enter – In the dream you see or step on it means a very good sign for positive development of personal relationships and satisfaction;
- New experiences If play with it – The dream shows that you have fallen back in an immature sexual phase or you could win new experiences from old ones for the future.
* Please, also read dream meaning of feces and urine.