Dream About Washing
If you dream that you are washing your clothes or yourself, it indicate purity, purification and renewal, means difficulties hard work and struggles. It indicate that you want to get rid of distressing negative emotions or thoughts, an omen for a growing problem or issue. There is also a possibility that this dream indicates a desire for a fresh start or a change in your life, a symbol for an indication that something to you has ended.
Washing your hands indicate mishaps, restlessness or anxiety, refers to a tempting situation. Maybe you want to stay away from dirty things or bad habits, a sign for your concerns about not measuring up to the standards or expectations of others. It also indicate that you need to be careful in certain areas of your life, expresses your desires for a relationship or that a new relationship is blossoming.
On the other hand, if you dream that you are washing someone else, it mean that you want to help others to cope with a difficult situation, denotes perfection and spirituality. You also see your own weaknesses or flaws in the person you wash, you may be trying to protect yourself from subconscious material or some desires that is emerging.
It is important to consider your emotions, personal experiences, and cultural background while interpreting this dream, an omen for an attempt to change your old ways and habits.
Washing in a dream symbolize purification, renewal, and cleansing, also this dream about your physical attention you give it. It represent a desire to wash away negative feelings, emotions, or past experiences, a clue for your for a particular condition or situation. Washing also symbolize a need to cleanse oneself of guilt or shame, a metaphor for self-criticism and discipline.
Alternatively, washing represent a desire for change or a fresh start in life, a sign for dissatisfaction with some aspect of your home life. It signify that you are ready to let go of old patterns and behaviors and embrace new ones, a clue for enlightenment or new found understanding.
Dirty Clothes: Dreaming of washing dirty clothes indicate a need to deal with unfinished business or unresolved emotions in your life, a symbol for some fear that you do not know how to deal with. It also suggest that you are ready to let go of past mistakes or negative experiences, a warning signal for low self poor self-image. Clean Clothes: Dreaming of washing clean clothes represent a sense of pride in oneself and a desire for self-improvement, refers to your emotional emotional appetite. Washing Hands: Dreaming of washing hands symbolize a need for cleanliness and purity, both physically and spiritually, signifies monotony of your daily routine. It also represent a desire to wash away guilt or negative energy, signals balance between the and between the physical. Washing Face: Dreaming of washing your face signify a need to face your emotions or confront a difficult situation in your life, denotes the past or a passage of time. It also indicate a desire to refresh and renew oneself, draws attention to feelings of insecurity or doubt.
Christianity: In Christianity, washing symbolize baptism, which is a sign of rebirth and spiritual cleansing, stands for of others. It also represent forgiveness and the washing away of sins, also this dream about primal need to be for. Hinduism: In Hinduism, washing represent the purification of the body and soul, creativity and intelligence. It also be associated with ritual cleansing and the removal of impurities, stands for your sense of desire to stand out in a crowd. Islam: In Islam, washing is a part of ritual purification and is called "wudu, signals honor, celebration, continuity or completeness. " It is required before prayer and represents the washing away of impurities, both physical and spiritual, states your desire to hold on to a certain image, time or period in your life.
Japanese Culture: In Japanese culture, washing is considered a sacred act and is often associated with spiritual purification, a symbol for masculine power, dominance and energy. It is a common practice in Buddhist temples, where visitors are required to wash their hands and mouth before entering, sadly a warning alert for your of experience. Native American Culture: In Native American culture, washing associated with spiritual cleansing and purification, a problem or challenge that you are being confronted with in your life. Sweat lodges and purification ceremonies often involve washing with water or herbs, also this dream about self-control, determination, tenacity, healing and transformation.
Psychologically, dreaming of washing represent a desire to cleanse oneself of negative thoughts and emotions, a portent for an emotional or relational problem. It also indicate a need for self-care and self-love, signifies your flighty ideas. Washing also symbolize a desire for order and organization in one's life, also this dream about your in a situation or circumstance.
If you dream of washing, it helpful to examine your current situation and consider what you need to cleanse or let go of in your life, refers to your sense of understanding. Reflect on your emotions and try to identify any negative patterns or behaviors that holding you back, hints spirituality, achievement. Consider incorporating self-care and self-love practices into your daily routine to help you feel renewed and refreshed, an evidence for your developing talents.
Generally, washing is associated with cleansing or purification, signals your need to be sheltered and protected. It represent a desire to rid oneself of negative emotions or experiences, or to start fresh in some aspect of life, expresses your desire to escape from your current circumstances.
If the dream involves washing oneself, it represent a need to cleanse oneself of guilt or negative emotions, a warning alert for an outdated way of doing something. It also symbolize a desire to present oneself in a more positive light, or to improve one's image, hints new light and knowledge.
If the dream involves washing objects or clothes, it represent a need to cleanse or purify a situation or relationship, you have come to some understanding. This involve confronting difficult truths or letting go of negative experiences or people, refers to failure in gaining the of someone sought for.
It is important to pay attention to the specific details of the dream, such as the location of the washing, the objects being washed, and the emotions experienced during the dream, denotes carefree nature. For example, washing in a river represent a desire for spiritual cleansing, while washing in a bathtub represent a desire for emotional cleansing, a hint for your closeness to your spirituality or religious beliefs.
It helpful to reflect on the specific details of the dream and any emotions experienced during the dream to gain insight into what causing this desire and how to address it in waking life, a message for some information or some thing is coming into your consciousness.
What does it mean Washing in a dream?
- If you have dreamed of Washing in your dream, Events concerning your love life are concluded, you can join important organizations, you can make your relations with your friends more effective and visible.
Washing in a dream means that the dreamer will get rid of his troubles and have hard times, stay away from people who make him sad, live a healthy and peaceful life, and smile with the news he will receive.
- If you have seen bathing in a dream, You may need to appease or bring peace to the people you care about. The idea, plan or projects that give a good picture when viewed from the outside may be gnawing at you inside.
To see bathing in a dream indicates that the person who sees the dream will regret his mistakes and correct himself, live a good life and be in good spirits, and have good luck in every sense. It is interpreted that the person who sees bathing in the dream will be in a good mood, he will get the reward of his efforts and he will get rid of his financial problems.
- If you have dreamed of washing and cleaning in your dream, You can make different plans with your close circle and the person you love, your agenda may be quite active.
To be washed in a dream, to be cleaned, denotes the deserved rank at the end of your efforts, embracing people with compassion and chasing after the good. Washing in a dream and getting involved in society means repentance, acceptance of prayers, good progress and good deeds, and regaining self-confidence. To be washed and cleaned in a dream indicates that the dreamer will get rid of his troubles, his troubles will come to an end and his problems will be resolved. It indicates that the person who sees the dream will be in good health, peace and happiness will always be.
- Washing in a dream portends good luck. It means that the person who sees the dream will get rid of his troubles. He gets tired of realizing the beauties of life, relaxing, calming down, getting rid of tension and finding peace. It is narrated to taste happiness, to attain health, to be in love and peace. It indicates that the dreamer will have all the remedies he needs to smile and feel good.
- It indicates that the person who sees the dream will find ways to overcome the difficulties, will begin to forget the events that have been negatively affected, will improve psychologically, and this will reflect positively on both his inner world and his physical appearance and health. It means that the beautiful development in the dream owner will be noticed immediately when viewed from the outside.
Martha Clarke Interpretation
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.
Theresa Cheung Interpretation
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.
Tony Crisp Interpretation
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.
Dr. Mıchael Lennox Interpretation
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.
Pamela Ball Interpretation
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.
Garuda Interpretation
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.
Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin Interpretation
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.
Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation
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.
Klaus Vollmar Interpretation
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.
Dream Explanations - Anonymous Interpretation
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.
Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation
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.
Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation
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.
Gillian Holloway Interpretation
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.
myjellybean Interpretation
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.
Gustavus Hindman Miller Interpretation
To dream that you are washing yourself, signifies that you pride yourself on the numberless liaisons you maintain.
See Wash Bowl or Bathing.
James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver Interpretation
Washing oneself may represent cleaning away the dirt and debris of unhappy experiences or emotions in the dreamer’s life.
Katherine Taylor Craig Interpretation
To dream of washing oneself denotes good after an illness, a change for the better
(Gypsy).
Tyler Wolfe Interpretation
(hands, body, or feet) symbolic of cleansing from sin, Ex. 30:19 21, Ps. 26:6, Jn. 13:8
Internet Archive - Anonymous Interpretation
A dream of difficulties ahead, probably connected with friends or with your home life.
Vincent Wienand Interpretation
1. Renewal/ Being born again or need to be born again (clothes washing); Joel 2:13
Vincent Wienand Interpretation
See Room House and accessories.
Eric Ackroyd Interpretation
see Bath, sections (2) and (3)
Zolar Interpretation
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.
Ibn Seerin Interpretation
(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)
Towers, Jacqueline Interpretation
This is indicative of a desire to lead a better life, but it can also mean defending a friend who is under attack.
Jean Boushahla Interpretation
cleansing needed, or being done. "Don't wash your dirty laundry in public"; "all washed up"; to "wash your hands" of something.
Georg Fink Interpretation
A dream in which you are washing yourself indicates that you need to be absolved of some kind of accusation in real life.
Ian Wallace Interpretation
Opportunity to open up about my emotions so I can come clean and take a fresh approach by releasing what I no longer need
Cathleen Connor Interpretation
If you are washing something in a dream, you may be attempting to cleanse or purify yourself. If a stain won't come out, the dream may relate to a concern about something from your past connected with feelings of guilt.
Mary Summer Interpretation
portrays a desire to be surrounded by positive aspects
Julia and Derek Parker Interpretation
The washing of hands has always been a symbol of trying to cleanse ourselves of evil: perhaps you bitterly regret some recent action (the context of the dream may offer a clue).
Julie Gillentine Interpretation
Indicates cleansing something, removing unwanted influences, and renewing. Are you washing clothes or yourself? Are you able to get things clean? Is the water clean? Possible health issues.
Tony Crisp Interpretation
hair Thoughts; self-image; attitudes. See hair under washing. Baldness: aging; feeling obsolete; lack of thought. Beard: depending upon feelings in the dream, it can suggest masculinity, deceit, wisdom, or some kind of cover-up. Brushing hair: clarifying attitudes or thoughts. Changing hairstyle: changing attitudes; a change of mind. Chest hair: masculinity, virility. Cutting off beard: making a change; feeling more certain about one’s manhood; or uncertainty about manhood. Cutting right off: less thinking; denial of sensual and physical drives, as monk. Dark hair: unconscious area of thoughts and attitudes; “dark” thoughts or attitudes. Disheveled hair: mental confusion. Fair hair: awareness; “light-headed.” Genital or armpit: sexuality. Hair on chest of female, even child: the male side of the woman; might be parents’ desire for a boy, generating male characteristics. Long and matted: not caring about social image or self; dropout. Long: freedom; permissiveness; girlhood with woman. Plaited or ponytail: girlhood; socialized thoughts and feelings. Tight style: discipline; self-restraint. Very long beard: sense of eternal. White beard: wisdom or experience. Wig: false attitudes or thoughts; an assumed social front. Woman’s dreams—armpit or leg hair: social expression of sexuality or physicality. Idioms: keep your hair on; hair-raising; have us by the short hairs; let one’s hair down; make your hair curl, stand on end; didn’t turn a hair; put hairs on your chest; tear one’s hair out; split hairs. See shampoo. hand Most frequently dreamt-of part of body. Self-expression; grasp —of life, of ideas, of opportunities; our hold on people, our children, situations. Extension of our power—to give, take, wound, heal, support, or do. Fingers: fingers can be expressive of your feelings. It can be the finger of scorn; accusing finger; finger of suspicion; beckoning finger; to put your finger on it. Fingers represent your grasp on things, your method of materializing yourself, or leaving your mark upon matter. Therefore, your personal skills. The finger can represent the penis, as is common use in sex-play; your means of sensing, or fingering, things. Fingers can, as the wedding ring finger, suggest something like marriage. The fingerprint also denotes your uniqueness. Fingernails: weapons; personal condition—i.e., dirty or cared for. Handshake: contacting an aspect of self; friendship; nonverbal communication. Fist: anger; restrained anger; threat; graspingness, selfishness, arrogance, aggressiveness, tension. Dirty hands: dirty work; unclean activity. Rough hands: Marks left by difficult experience; roughness in handling others. Clawlike hands: clawing, wounding ability. Idioms: secondhand; in the hands of; bite the hand that feeds; hands are tied; soil one’s hands; hand to hand; hand-to-mouth; hands off; hard hand; helping hand; openhanded; lend a hand; upper hand; burnt fingers; at one’s fingertips; snap one’s fingers; green fingers; have a finger in; itchy fingers; sticky fingers; fingers crossed; lay a finger on; point the finger at; get one’s finger out; fingers to bone. head Thoughts; opinions; intellect; decisions; intentions; self-image. Fairly understandable from the huge number of idioms about head and face, such as “lose one’s head/face,” so one might literally dream of a headless figure. Dreams may also use the head as an image to show how one is “of two minds” about something, or is changing one’s mind. This might be shown by having two heads, or changing one’s head. Idioms: above one’s head; enter one’s head; get something into one’s head; go off one’s head; over one’s head; swollen or big head; head above water; head in sand; egghead; square head; off the top of my head; hold your head up high; come to a head; head over heels; over your head; get it through your head; turn one’s head; heads up. heart Emotions; pity; sympathy; likes and dislikes; one’s actual physical heart. Being stabbed, shot, or in any way injured in the heart may depict deep emotional hurts, but also may be a warning of physical heart problems. Idioms: lost your heart; have a heart; have no heart; heart like stone; change one’s heart; done one’s heart good; from bottom of heart; sick at heart; don’t let your heart run away with your head; wearing your heart on your sleeve; the heart of the matter; heavy heart; after your heart; break your heart; my heart’s in my mouth; openhearted. internal organs Often to do with concerns over health. Could be a sense of illness in that part of body; mostly anxiety about illness. See separate organs. jaw Your strength to stop anyone getting into you—through your mouth. Your power to hold on to emotions—by clenching your teeth. The jaw can also represent being swallowed up—in other words, a fear of losing your identity or will.
Tony Crisp Interpretation
Getting rid of negative feelings, such as despair or selfdoubt; 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 or penis: clearing negative sexual feelings; dealing with the results of pent-up sexuality or reproductive drive. Hanging up washing: allowing change to come into your 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 off. See soap; bath, bathing.
Common Source
Washing anything in a dream can be considered a positive omen that represents a cleansing or purification in your life. What you are washings becomes symbolic to the area was once negative or unclean. For the most part what is often cleaned still remains unconscious to the dreamer but the process has already begun. Washing hair in your dream is a removal of negative thoughts, patterns or things that were hindering your growth. Washing your private parts can be seen related to urges or sexual behaviors that have been cleaned up. To dream of washing your hands is metaphoric for removing or leaving things in your life that no longer serve you any purpose. If you dream of washing clothes or a washing machine it connects to the dreamers identity or self image that they are cleaning up.