I have a recurring dream, not a nightmare really, but rather an uncomfortable - bad feeling dream…
Sometimes I am in a YMCA type place with a large group of girls, like in junior high when we went swimming. I need to pee, but there are no normal bathrooms. Sometimes there is a circle of toilets, no walls, othre times there are stalls with half walls, or no doors. I spend the whole dream looking for a private place to pee.
Last night it was different, it was a house. I dont recognize the other residents, but there seemed to be lots of them, and only one or two little bathrooms with no doors, right off the kitchen or living room - lots of traffic.
What on earth does this mean? Women dont pee at urinals like men, but we do squat in the woods if need be, and I can pee with others in hearing range. I have never tried with people watching - but why on earth would I? Is that even what the dream is about??
I am usually good at interpretation, but this one I cant figure.
Seriously (at least in my case), it means that your slumbering body needs to piss like a racehorse. Of course, you can’t get up and go to the bathroom while you’re asleep, so you dream of eternally looking for a bathroom instead.
Welcome to my world. I have had so many versions of this dream, I could write the definitive work. There is no bathroom, or there is and there are no stalls, or the doors won’t close, or they’re made of glass, or the toilet is broken, or people keep coming by and preventing me from going - it’s torture! I have finally had some success at programming myself for lucid dreaming, so when I’m wandering around like this I recognize it’s a dream and wake myself up. But I tried that the other night, and I wouldn’t believe myself when I told myself it was a dream. Sigh.
I must be a light sleeper because when I gotta go in the eve. I go! I’ve had tons of dreams though where my alarm clock going off is a fire alarm. I don’t wake up for 10 minutes!
Kellibelli, That’s very weird. When I have to pee when I’m asleep, I always dream of peeing where people can see me. And it’s usually in a locker room type of place where the stalls are open or the stall doors are so short that people can see me peeing. In all of these dreams, I end up not going at all because I have no privacy.
I have to agree with Strainger’s analysis. It makes total sense. I’m wondering how many other people have the same type of dreams. Fess up, people.
No, I have different versions of this all the time. Just means you have to pee IRL and in your dream you are refusing to let your body just let go because of social norms. It does hark back to potty training.
I’ve had similar dreams only for me its more I find a bathroom and I sit to go but I can’t go though I know I have to… eventually I usually wake up and have to go irl… and people thought me weird when I tried to describe it so I just shut up and didn’t say anything more…
Lesbianism? Hardly. Sounds more like repressed hetero fetishes to me:
YMCA = desire for male partner. YWCA would represent lesbian desires. swimming pool = water sports urge to pee = reinforces water sports theme no normal bathrooms = the usual, socially acceptable release for the desire will not do. circle of toilets/no doors/etc. - desire for public fulfillment. search for private place - indicates that these fetish desires are deeply repressed. Concious mind will not let deep seated desires be fulfilled, even in dream state. recurring dream - You want it bad.
Or it could be the full bladder thing, who knows?. The good news, Kelli, is that with years of ridiculously expensive therapy and role playing (lots of role playing), I think I can get you through this.
If you don’t wake up with an incredible urge to actually pee, I’m not so sure that that’s what it is.
[hijack] In my younger, college days, I could go on an all-night bender and sleep until morn, at which time I would have to go so bad that it felt like my appendix had burst. I would then commence with a two- to three-minute-long ogre piss that would begin to frighten my suitemates. (Everything echoes in dorm rooms.
Now, sadly, the moment my body thinks it remotely might have to pee, it says, “Hey, wake up!” And there’s no not doing it.[/hijack]
Maybe your dream means psychologically, you are holding back on doing something that you feel an urgent need to do, but haven’t been able to find the right place and the right time to do it.
Believe it or not there does exist a urinal like device to enable women to pee standing up. It was developed in Japan and I know there are a couple installed in Helsinki somewhere. Essebtially you are looking at a tube like device with a replacable …em… contact area. Im trying to dig up a link for this but wanted to let you know that you may or may not be a lesbian but you are certainly too late to get a patenet
here is my ungodly embarrassing dream and what I figured it might mean. Maybe it’ll help.
After I graduated from college and began sending out resumes I had this dream that I had gotten a job in a beautiful business office. It was bright and clean and everyone was very professional and dressed very conservatively. On the whole, the atmosphere was business-like and controlled. I had been given a plain office–still very nice and large–and near my desk were some empty boxes. Now everyone was very curteous and helpful, but not terribly personal. So there I sat alone in this office and have the urge to relieve myself. The next thing I remember as I’m dreaming is actually going–but realizing as I am that I’m sitting over one of these boxes! I’m pissing in a file box! Panic sets in and I try desperately to gain my composure. I (somehow) dispose of the box and make it out into the hallway to the bathroom. Everyone is nodding to me and carrying on very professionally. Then I wake up.
It TOTALLY freaked me out. What did it mean? I couldn’t figure it out. Then I realized that it wasn’t the pissing part, it was the act of doing something totally natural–something you don’t normally think that much about–and finding I was OUT OF PLACE. I didn’t belong in that office. I wasn’t comfortable in that atmosphere. I couldn’t be myself.
Granted, I’m probably certifiable anyway…but maybe this humilation of mine will help you.
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