Pamela Ball Interpretation: 1- When we dream of being in the bath, it may indicate the need for cleansing of some old feelings, the need to relax, to let go. We have an opportunity to contemplate what has occurred in the past and to adopt new- attitudes.
2- “I’o dream of bathing someone shows the need to nurture or to have an intimate connection with that person.
3- Communal bathing depicts innocence and sensuality combined.
To bathe with other people, gossip about the dreamer may be disturbing.
For a widow or widower, remarriage. Bathing in clear water, business expansion or renovation about the home. Physiologically, dreams of bathing may be due to physical discomfort. Psychologically they imply a guilt complex.
To be wearing a bathing costume denotes a degree of permitted exposure.
For men, it is more likely to be functional and, therefore, a time of planning. You might like to read the entries for swimming, washing and water.
Psychological / emotional perspective: When we dream of bathing someone, it shows the need to nurture or to have an intimate connection with another person. We may have knowledge which can help or heal.
From a spiritual perspective, any dream where water is involved suggests an act of cleansing or initiation. Communal bathing depicts innocence and sensuality combined.
Relaxation; cleansing; wanting to “come clean” or be rid of guilt. Such cleansing could depict a change of heart or forgiveness where old feelings are washed away; some bathing dreams or fantasies depict the bath as a form of ritual that is getting you ready for something, perhaps a radical change, but often to do with sexuality; the meeting with feelings or fears of relationship— perhaps meeting one’s own male/female self more fully; vulnerability, nakedness, one’s secrets; marriage/relationship intimacy; being immersed in an influence of some sort; deep sharing, perhaps blending of qualities; powerful change or renewal; may sometimes relate to feelings about life in the womb; need to cleanse the body internally. See baptism. Bathing in a river: being open to or under the influence of flowing feelings and urges within oneself; allowing oneself to be influenced from within by urges toward change, growth, or expansion of awareness. Bathing in the sea: being open to a more universal—less self-centered—awareness of one’s relationship with life.