Washing
Washing Dream Meaning
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Washing dream meaning is explained below using
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Interpretation 1 — Martha Clarke
If you wash yourself in dreams it means you need to “cleanse” certain aspects of your personality, since you harbor feelings of guilt. On the contrary, these images could also mean that matters that are worrying you are beginning to clear up. An important detail: if you are washing clothes or a personal item, it is your emotional and intimate relationships that require cleaning.
If you wash dishes, it indicates spiritual purity that nourishes you.
If you was someone else, it shows your desire for that person to heal. (See WATER)
To wash clothes or rags of white linen is a very promising dram. To wash yourself is also a good omen, as long as it is with clear, clean water. Stained clothing, however, predicts bad luck.
If you take a bath while clothed, it signifies coming deceptions.
Source: The Big Dictionary of Dreams • Author: Martha Clarke
Interpretation 2 — Theresa Cheung
If you are washing yourself, or someone or something else in a dream using water, this suggests the cleansing of negative feelings such as despair or self- doubt. Is it time to clean up your act or perhaps get started on a project you have been postponing? Dreams of washing your hair suggest you are thinking of changing your attitude or the way you present yourself to others; if you are washing a vagina or penis, it could mean that you are dealing with the results of a pent-up sexuality, whilst if you are washing your hands, you may be trying to get rid of feelings about something you have done or been involved with.
If you dream of hanging up washing, it suggests that you are allowing change to come into your life, as well as letting other people see your new attitudes.
Source: The Element Encyclopedia • Author: Theresa Cheung
Interpretation 3 — Zolar
lucky numbers: 13-17-18-20-23-28
body: wil suffer through a misjudgment of immoral conduct.
clear water, in: wil enjoy many pleasures in life, with minor setbacks.
dishes: friends wil visit at your home in the midst of an argument.
face, your: a welcome relationship is on the horizon.
feet: anxiety over where you have been.
food: may have to pocket your pride to rid yourself of another’s pol uting your character.
hair or beard: sorrow interrupted by a short-lived euphoria.
hands in cold water: contentment, a purifying stil ness.
hot: others blame you for your success.
linen: feel you are sleeping with the enemy.
machine: are on the road to bettering yourself.
window: a service wil be rendered by an unknown person.
Source: Zolar’s Book of Dreams Numbers and Lucky Days • Author: Zolar
Interpretation 4 — Tony Crisp
Getting rid of negative feelings such as despair or self doubt, fears about health—neurotic phobias about one’s own wholeness. Washing hair: changing one’s attitude; altering the way one thinks about something or one’s viewpoint. Washing vagina, penis: clearing negative sexual feelings; dealing with the results of pent up sexuality or reproductive drive. Hanging up washing: allowing change to come into one’s life; letting other people see one’s new attitudes. In a mother’s dream: may refer to caring for the family emotionally. Washing hands: getting rid of feelings about something you have done or been involved in. Idioms: all come out in the wash; lost in the wash; it won’t wash; wash dirty linen in public; wash one’s hands of.
See soap; bath.
Source: A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiences • Author: Tony Crisp
Interpretation 5 — Dr. Mıchael Lennox
When some type of washing occurs in a dream, you are cleansing or clearing out something that no longer serves you.
The primary symbolic meaning for any kind of bathing connects to this desire to be clean and available for social interaction with others. This can connect to unconscious feelings of dirtiness that are both literal and metaphorical. There may be ways in which you are feeling unclean and in need of purification. Anything that involves water in a dream is going to connect somehow to issues of emotions. Using water to bathe might point to a need or desire to immerse yourself in the realm of your feelings in order to cleanse yourself of the pain that life sometimes brings.
Source: Complete Dictionary of Dreams • Author: Dr. Mıchael Lennox
Interpretation 6 — Pamela Ball
also see Water
1- Dreaming of washing either oneself, or for instance, clothes, suggests getting rid of negative feelings. We may need to change our attitude, either internally or externally. Washing other people touches on our need to care for others.
2- Since water is a symbol for emotion and the unconscious, washing stands for achieving a relationship with our emotional selves and dealing successfully with the results.
3- A spiritual clcansing may be necessary in order to preserve the dreamer’s integrity.
Source: Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary • Author: Pamela Ball
Interpretation 7 — Stephen Girard
For a man to dream he washes or bathes himself in baths or wash-houses, signifies riches prosperitv, and health to the sick. But to dream he washes or Lathes himself, contrary to the common custom or use, or in his clothes, is evil, and betokens sickness and great danger. To dream that you wash in fountains, ponds, or running water, and in fair and clear floods, is good, but not that you swim, for that is a sign of danger and sickness : washing is a sure sign of a removal.
Source: The Mystic Dream Book • Author: Stephen Girard
Interpretation 8 — Garuda
Vision: Washing hands: you are feeling remorse because of something you did. Washing dirt)’ things: others caused problems, because they insisted on something that was wrong. Washing yourself or taking a bath: traits that “stain” your character need to be removed.
See Bathing, Soap, Water.
Depth Psychology: Dreams about washing are a reminder to “wash away” bad habits.
See Laundry.
Source: Dreamers Dictionary • Author: Garuda
Interpretation 9 — Ibn Seerin
(Brass polisher, Dishwasher, Washer) Adishwasher or a brass polisher in a dream represent an interior decorator, or someone who beautifies and embellishes people’s properties, or one who attracts people to himself.
A washer in a dream is also interpreted as a righteous man, a gnostic, a preacher, a teacher, or one who polishes people’s hearts with his admonitions.
(Also seeWasher)
Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation • Author: Ibn Seerin
Interpretation 10 — Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin
1. To dream that one is washing one’s face and/or hands in a washbowl signifies that the dreamer will be consumed with passion for someone close to him/her.
2. To dream that one is washing one’s feet signifies that the dreamer will change his/her line of work and undertake a more fruitful venture.
Source: New American Dream Dictionary • Author: Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin
Interpretation 11 — Versatile - Anonymous
Material aspects: Dreaming of washing either ourselves or, for instance, clothes suggests getting rid of negative feelings. We may need to change our attitude, either internally or externally. Washing other people touches on our need to care for others.
Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous
Interpretation 12 — Klaus Vollmar
A symbol for cleansing as in Tub, Shower, Bath, Sauna. In alchemy, being blackened is followed by washing; chaotic situations are followed by cleansing (from guilt feelings). Washing of the hands is a sign of innocence.
Source: Little Giant Encyclopedia • Author: Klaus Vollmar
Interpretation 13 — Dream Explanations - Anonymous
Dreams of washing are about healing, detoxing, and releasing negativity, so that you may start again, fresh, cleansed and renewed. Also, this dream may be giving you the message that it is time to clean up your act.
See Cry.
Source: Strangest Dream Explanations • Author: Dream Explanations - Anonymous
Interpretation 14 — Versatile - Anonymous
Psychological / emotional perspective: Since water is a symbol for emotion and the unconscious, washing stands for achieving a relationship with our emotional selves and dealing successfully with the results.
Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous
Interpretation 15 — Versatile - Anonymous
A spiritual cleansing may be necessary in order to preserve our integrity, such as before a magical ritual. Such an image will often arise spontaneously as our knowledge increases.
Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous
Interpretation 16 — Gillian Holloway
If you dream of washing yourself, it is an indication that you will be thought well of by most members of the opposite sea, and may look forward to a happy married life.
Source: The Complete Dream Book • Author: Gillian Holloway
Interpretation 17 — myjellybean
If you dream of washing yourself in a bath or shower, or in a pond, you need time to yourself to relax from a recent period of emotional stress.
Source: My Dream Interpretation • Author: myjellybean
Interpretation 18 — Gustavus Hindman Miller
To dream that you are washing yourself, signifies that you pride yourself on the numberless liaisons you maintain.
See Wash Bowl or Bathing.
Source: Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation • Author: Gustavus Hindman Miller
Interpretation 19 — James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver
Washing oneself may represent cleaning away the dirt and debris of unhappy experiences or emotions in the dreamer’s life.
Source: Dream Symbols in The Dream Encyclopedia • Author: James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver
Interpretation 20 — Katherine Taylor Craig
To dream of washing oneself denotes good after an illness, a change for the better (Gypsy).
Source: The Fabric of Dream • Author: Katherine Taylor Craig
Interpretation 21 — Tyler Wolfe
(hands, body, or feet) symbolic of cleansing from sin, Ex. 30:19 21, Ps. 26:6, Jn. 13:8
Source: Christian Dream Symbols • Author: Tyler Wolfe
Interpretation 22 — Internet Archive - Anonymous
A dream of difficulties ahead, probably connected with friends or with your home life.
Source: Mystic Dream Book • Author: Internet Archive - Anonymous
Interpretation 23 — Vincent Wienand
1. Renewal/ Being born again or need to be born again (clothes washing); Joel 2:13
Source: Dream Dictionary The Biblical Model • Author: Vincent Wienand
Interpretation 24 — Vincent Wienand
See Room House and accessories.
Source: Dream Dictionary The Biblical Model • Author: Vincent Wienand
Interpretation 25 — Eric Ackroyd
see Bath, sections (2) and (3)
Source: A Dictionary of Dream Symbols • Author: Eric Ackroyd