I have dreams facilitated by urinary urgency but they NEVER involve toilets. I vaguely remember one with a crow man I had, the crow man was really creepy and he kept offing people. The less people that were left the closer I got to really, really needing to go. The dream was so interesting too… but I still have no idea how my brain decodes these messages as “need to urinate stat!”
The need to urinate will enter into my dreams often. I don’t know that I ever had any where there is a toilet in the living room, but if I have to go, I will find I need to go inside the dream as well. In fact, there have been a few times where I realized that I since I kept *having *to urinate then I was probably dreaming and I should wake up and take care of business.
Only pissing dream I remember having ended up with me pissing the bed. I was probably 9 or 10 at the time. Since then I think my brain doesn’t trust me on this matter so I don’t have those dreams; I just wake up having to pee really bad.
All you folks with dreams of not being able to pee. I have dreams of actually peeing. Does this indicate poor impulse control socialization?
I tend to talk out of turn, fidget in polite company, generally am the first to finish my drink when a round is served, etc.
Ditto to all this, except I wouldn’t say mine are frequent. But I have had dreams like this.
I never get the ‘disgusting toilet’ or ‘can’t go’ ones. I (in my dream) get the urge that I have to go, so I go. Sometimes there’s a toilet there, and sometimes there isn’t, but regardless I end up peeing absolutely everywhere (sometimes with people catching me ‘in the act’) and feeling rather embarrassed about afterward. Then the urge comes back and we do it all over again. By the second round I usually wake up.
When I was little, I wet the bed a couple of times to dreams like this, but for the last 30-odd years I’ve managed to keep dreams and reality thankfully separated.
I’m another that has peeing dreams (female)…usually I’m in a long, empty hallway, searching for a bathroom, and when I finally find one, it is such blessed relief to pee. And yes, I have on rare occasion, started to pee the bed as I pee in the dream. It always wakes me right up and I hightail it to the REAL bathroom. Then I have to put a towel down on the wet spot till morning.
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.
Female, have these ALL the time. My signal for distinguishing dream from reality is that no matter the circumstance of the dream if I’m sitting on a toilet but my butt ain’t cold it ain’t real–for some reason my dreaming mind is unable to make me think I’m sitting on a cold seat. I get nested ones, too, where I dream I’m peeing but my butt is warm so I wake up and go to the toilet but my butt is warm so I wake up and go to the toilet but my butt is warm so I wake up… Eventually I really DO wake up and go to the toilet where my butt is cold! No accidents so far but I’m an old broad so it’s probably just a matter of time.
Male. Either I can’t find the bathroom, or I find one and start peeing, but I never feel like I’m finished because I’m not actually peeing (thank god!).
I get one of these at least twice a week, usually around 4:00am. I get up, go pee and go back to sleep.
Often the restroom will be nearly physically inaccessible; the door will be impossible to open, or a sheet of steel angled like a fish trap, where it looks easy to go into but proves impossible to exit, as well as filthy. And when I urinate, it doesn’t give any relief.
Female, and I get really creative problem-toilet dreams a few times a week and have for as long as I can remember. Like previous responders, main themes are: unspeakable filth, lack of privacy, toilet inoperable, toilet unfindable. I almost never dream of actually peeing, with or without relief, though; the obstacles are always persuasive enough to prevent me. If it seems as though I might just go ahead and deal with whatever the problem is, my dream ups the stakes on me (maybe I’m about to pee even though there’s no door, so all of a sudden the nastiest popular girls I knew in middle school are all standing there yelling at me… maybe I’ll decide to go even if the toilet is full and surrounded by a shallow puddle of sewage, so all of a sudden the toilet springs a leak that pours stale turds straight into my socks, etc.) Frequently, I’ll be in a public building that I thought I knew well, but drastic things have changed: it turns out it’s been remodeled such that the staircase no longer opens on the floor where the restrooms are and you have to take the elevator which has accidentally been programmed to shoot you into low space orbit, or the toilets and stalls are all sized for kindergartners now, or the storm of the century has just blown the roof off and all the toilets are encased in two feet of solid ice in shades of brown and yellow.
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This is a recurring dream of mine that I’ve posted about before, down to the weird toilet configurations. Lots of people have the dirty toilet version, but I’ve never talked to anyone else that had the weird toilet version.
Another woman I work with says she has the filthy toilet dreams when she has to pee, and she used to be a bed wetter (as did I). I wonder if there’s a correlation. I’m usually not a lucid dreamer, but when I’m trying to find a place to pee and all the toilets are overflowing with shit, there are no stall doors for privacy, and the only clean toilet has seatbelts and hand controls, I’m like, “oh right, I’m dreaming, I’ve got to wake up to pee”
Had one today (work at night & sleep in the daytime), so I wonder if participating in this thread might have planted a “suggestion” in my subconscious?
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Ditto
Male. About once a month, I have a dream where I am looking for a bathroom, though I don’t particularly feel the need “to go”. In each case, I find the bathroom, or a toilet, but there is no privacy; the toilet is alone in the center of the room, the toilet is in a public place and there are people around, etc. I look and find another, but the same problem. The room may even be small and empty, but if I start to go, suddenly I notice that one side of the room is open and there are people walking by.
These dreams never coincide with having to go in real life. When I wake up, I feel no more urgency to go than normal, so the dreams aren’t reflecting my waking world need to go.
Must be symbolization of some weird mental imbalance, 'cause it sure isn’t the obvious.
Oh good, it’s not just me. I’m female.
This happens to me all the time.
I also get the “so thirsty I’ll drink anything” dreams and wake up with the most awful cotton mouth.
Female!
Male. Certainly not unusual for me to have this type of dream. I’m having a lot of trouble finding the bathroom, or someone’s distracting me from getting there usually. When I get there, I actually do pee (in the dream), but the peeing can be haphazard. And then I notice that I’m not feeling the relief I should, which generally wakes me up.
Fortunately, to date, I’ve not discovered having peed in real life as a result of any of these dreams.
Happens to me too.
Usually I’m on my way to a bathroom but people keep popping up and needing things and wanting to ask me questions or help them with something. Stuff like that.
… oddly enough, I just started typing out the last one I had and realized that I’ve had several where Japanese girls are watching me and I can’t go. Which is very weird. I have no particular preoccupation with Japan or Japanese people, positive or negative. I rarely think about them one way or the other. I can’t think of a single time I’ve dreamed about a Japanese person who wasn’t one of a whole gaggle watching me try to pee. I have no conscious associations between Japanese people and bathroom activities.
The only thing I can really think of is that I speak absolutely no Japanese (which is why it’s not German or Spanish or one of the languages I can understand a little) and it’s really disconcerting having a bunch of people jabbering away in such a completely foreign language while watching you do anything, let alone something private.