# Dreams triggered by urinary urgency? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 28, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-triggered-by-urinary-urgency/478918 "2008-12-28T03:32:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-triggered-by-urinary-urgency/478918/41 "2008-12-29T15:39:42Z")
I have them (I’m female) but there’s never anything disgusting or offputting about the toilets in my dream, it’s just that I can’t pee in the dream or if I do pee, it gives no relief. Then I wake up and rush to the bathroom. The only time I’ve peed the bed as an adult is when I was nine months pregnant with the first and simply couldn’t get out of bed in time. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-triggered-by-urinary-urgency/478918/42 "2008-12-29T15:50:19Z")
Japanese girls watching, huh? Isn’t there a cultural erotic thing about uninary incontinence in Japan? Omorasi or omorashi, I think? Maybe they are hoping you’ll wet the bed! ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-triggered-by-urinary-urgency/478918/43 "2008-12-29T16:06:28Z")
Male. When I have them, I’ve found an adequate toilet, but nothing seems to be coming out, although I have a strong feeling of urgency. I suppose that’s a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Parthol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@Parthol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parthol)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-triggered-by-urinary-urgency/478918/44 "2008-12-29T16:46:45Z")
> [@MetroGnome](#): > > Male here. In these “gotta pee” scenarios, I’ve also had the variations where the bathroom was too filthy or exposed to use. > > Just as often however, the scenario will be one where I do find a usable receptacle for my urine, but in the course of relieving myself, I will realize that I am taking much longer than usual and am getting no relief from my bladder’s urgency. It is then that I realize I’m dreaming and will try to wake myself to take a leak. This, right here. Exactly the same dreams as the OP, along with the “I’ve been peeing for a minute straight and don’t feel any better” variants. It’s really uncanny, how accurately the OP described my dreams of this sort (which I have about once every couple of months). I’m male, by the way. -P ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-triggered-by-urinary-urgency/478918/45 "2008-12-29T18:47:56Z")
> [@bink](#): > > Female, and I definitely have these. Toilet’s too high to sit on, full to the brim, dirty, in the middle of a room, no door, etc. etc. I haven’t wet the bed that I know of. In mine, the dreams are always that the toilet is full to the brim in the middle of a room. Or they’re weird contraptions like you’d imagine in some futuristic foreign country that you can’t figure out how to use. ---
**Author:** ![Furry\_Mongoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Furry\_Mongoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furry_Mongoose)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-triggered-by-urinary-urgency/478918/46 "2008-12-29T21:16:10Z")
Yes! Female. I have had these dreams regularly for years - thankfully never followed through! The dream is nearly always set in some Victorian public toilets with doors hanging off the cubicles and people watching (perverts!). ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-triggered-by-urinary-urgency/478918/47 "2008-12-29T21:19:37Z")
Female, and in my pee-dreams (ha!) either: [ul] [li]the bathroom is filthy[/li][li]I can’t find a bathroom[/li][li]there’s no doors on stalls[/li][li]I can’t get my pants off :eek:[/li][li]I pee and pee and can’t get any relief[/li][/ul] My husband also has that last one. I’m assuming because he’s, you know, male, those other things don’t apply to him. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AndLuna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@AndLuna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndLuna)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-triggered-by-urinary-urgency/478918/48 "2008-12-29T23:49:17Z")
… female, and yes, I have those dreams. Usually with the “there’s no door on the stall/the toilet is too disgusting to use/it’s in the middle of a crowded room/there’s a mile-long queue” sort of plot, and I generally wake up before too long. (On a slight tangent, I also have dreams where I’m desperately tired and need to lie down but can’t. I have no idea what those are about, given that I’m… already sleeping.) ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-triggered-by-urinary-urgency/478918/49 "2008-12-30T04:36:29Z")
Female and yes, I have these dreams. Either I can’t find a toilet, the toilet’s filthy, in a weird place, or there’s no privacy. Sometimes I actually find a decent place to pee and start to pee but something happens to interrupt me. I have never peed myself on those occasions. I once dreamed that I was at a convention and had tried to find a bathroom but couldn’t and wet my pants so I went to my hotel room to take a shower and there were a bunch of people in my room and some were using my shower. I was very upset and I still had to pee. At least I had no peed myself on that occasion either. I once asked my boyfriend if he had these kind of dreams and he said no, if he ever dreams that he’s peeing, he usually is but it doesn’t happen much. Thankfully he’s never had this happen when he has stayed over at my place. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-triggered-by-urinary-urgency/478918/50 "2008-12-30T05:20:43Z")
Female. Frequently have such dreams, though they’re of the “gotta go. Went. Still gotta go, WTF?” variety. On a few occasions I’ve awakened just as I was _sure_ I was going. This causes me to go :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: then bolt to the bathroom, where I discover that PHEW, it really WAS just a dream. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-triggered-by-urinary-urgency/478918/51 "2008-12-30T13:56:08Z")
Male,over the years have had more then a few dreams where I have actually had a leak but have felt no relief. I then wake up after a while and so far have not found that I’ve peed the bed. I then visit the toilet instead of dreaming about it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-triggered-by-urinary-urgency/478918.md?page=2)