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Dreaming of excrement : what can this symbol evoke?
It is the dream least spoken of and among the most frequent. Excrement is what the body rejects after taking what served it : a remainder, not a waste. Dreaming of excrement has no single meaning : it depends on what you were doing with it.
What is rejected after keeping the useful
The body does not reject what is bad : it rejects what it has already taken what it could from. It is a remainder of transformation, proof that assimilation took place — and nothing better proves one has been nourished.
Dreams often use this figure for what must be left behind after serving. A relationship from which you learned what you could learn, a trade that formed you, a period with nothing left to take. It is not a failure : it is a cycle completing.
The question it poses is concrete : what in you has finished serving? Those who dream of this are often at the end of a period, and the dream uses the most direct vocabulary it has.
What fertilises
Farmers have always known it : nothing makes things grow better. Manure is a farm's most useful matter, and languages keep the trace of that association between excrement and wealth — sayings often mingle the two.
Dreams constantly play on that reversal, which explains dreamers' surprise : such dreams are rarely unpleasant at the time. What you rejected nourishes something else, and often someone else.
What to remember is your reaction. Disgust says a rejection still under way ; indifference or noticed usefulness say a transformation is already done, and the dream observes rather than announces it.
What you do with it changes the reading
- A rejection without disgust — a cycle completing with nothing troublesome attached.
- Very strong disgust — a rejection still under way, and a part of you resisting what is being left.
- Finding nowhere private — the lack of privacy, a very frequent motif of these dreams.
- Excrement fertilising soil — what you left behind making something else grow.
- A stain one cannot remove — shame rather than rejection : not the same dream.
- Gold associated with these matters — the reversal sayings and tales have always repeated.
A psychological reading, not a ready-made box
Depth psychology treats these dreams without particular embarrassment : they are frequent, and generally designate a cycle of assimilation completing. It notes that the disgust felt is more instructive than the matter itself, and often designates a resistance to letting something go. Other readings retain the ancient association with fertility and wealth, present in countless sayings.
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