What does it mean to dream about bathing? |

Dreaming of a bath, symbolically speaking, represents a phase in which a cycle is being completed and another is beginning. We need to detach from what was previously lived and open ourselves with great receptiveness to the new stage that is emerging.

Check out more details below to better understand what you dreamed of.

Reflect on the context of dreaming about a bath

Are you running away from taking a shower?
In a dream (or many in the same night) are there several baths in several alternating scenes?
Is someone bathing you?
Is the water cold or hot?

Do you consider that you need to heal from an emotional problem, a negative behavioral pattern (such as addiction) or even a physical symptom?
Are you in a time of transition, such as changing jobs, graduating, separating, getting married? So, do you find yourself resistant to getting involved with this new phase, leaving the past behind and opening yourself up to this new stage in your life?
How are you reacting to any decisions you’ve made or recent behavior? Are you blaming yourself? Do you feel dirty, wrong, filthy, sinful?
What aspects of yourself can you cleanse, heal, regenerate, and transmute in order to adopt healthier habits that will do you so much good?
Are you feeling the need to relax more, such as taking a vacation or getting enough sleep to recover from a phase of many activities and challenges?

Understand possible applications of dreaming about a bath:

To dream that you are running away from the bath

When the dreamer is running away from the bath or does not finish it properly, it may be that he is avoiding leaving the past behind, letting go of a phase or image. You still need to better reflect on what your life is presenting you right now: opening up to a new existential phase.

Dreaming that someone bathes you

If someone is bathing the dreamer or this is the one who takes on this task, in his daily life he possibly needs to better evaluate how to overcome certain negative behavioral tendencies (such as the characteristics that mark the personality of the person who is with him in the bath). .

Back in the Middle Ages, immersion in hot water was seen as something sinful by the church. They condemned this practice for priests. Because it was associated with sensuality and pleasure. Likewise, icy baths were highly valued and recommended as “mortification”, that is, for sacrifices to carnal desires. Matter (the body) was challenged, tested, faced with the discomfort of a very cold bath.

Likewise, it may be that the cold baths portray a need for sacrifice on the part of the dreamer when dealing with what he has been experiencing in his day-to-day life. And if it’s a hot bath, it highlights the need to seek more pleasure, rest and comfort in this phase in which you live.

The transition in the person’s life may come from an external event. Something happens and generates a change. There is not as much control over this new stage that begins, such as a dismissal or even a promotion due to the retirement of an employee that creates the opportunity to assume this position. The rest symbolized by the bath can also be imposed by life, such as, for example, the flu or a symptom that obliges the dreamer to rest more.

It may indicate that this transition phase tends to happen through one’s own effort and will, such as when a person decides to go on a diet, get involved in physical exercise or make a decision that will represent a change in their life. Or she herself decides to slow down, seeking to rest and relax more.

It may be that the person is in harmony with the cycles of nature, with the rhythm of his existential process. And, therefore, respect and adapt to the moments of more rest, as well as the necessary changes in this phase of your life.

Maybe the person is looking for artificial and not very appropriate means to change some condition in his life. Or even to rest and relax, such as through alcohol or medicine.

The bath has a very impactful symbolism. It is associated with the sacred use of water, as well as Christian baptism. It is enough to remember what John the Evangelist declares: “he who has taken a bath no longer needs to wash, for he is entirely clean.” Metaphorically, this phrase represents the purifying symbolism of the bath. Its function is to heal, to rejuvenate.

Furthermore, immersion in water in baptismal rituals is regenerative and marks a transition. It is a birth, the entry into a new stage of life. This indicates that there is a story being left behind and another that begins with the baptismal bath.

Preparing for a new phase of life

It is not by chance that the bath is an initiation ritual. That is, it prepares us for a different stage in life (for example, from young to adult, adult to elderly). Just remember, as quoted in the Dictionary of Symbols (page 119), that “among the Greeks, statues of gods and goddesses were ritually dipped in purifying baths (Athena, Hera, etc); a bath preceded the initiation of the Nazarenes and, in the Middle Ages, exactly the same thing was done before the consecration of knights.”

Need to feel clean

There is also a tendency common to many people who suffer from OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder): to take many showers a day. That is, it is a compulsive (often unconscious) attempt to clean yourself up (not just physically, but emotionally). The person considers that he is filthy or soiled by sin (having committed something wrong in relation to the social principles he believes to be correct) and tries to regenerate himself through several baths daily.

This situation also presents one more possible meaning for the bath: the dreamer can consider himself as a sinner or dirty for having committed some crime or act that goes against his beliefs and his social and moral parameters.

Sign to slow down routine

In addition, the bath also has a relaxing function. It invigorates through relaxation. It seems to take a weight off our shoulders and the tiredness goes away after a good shower. Therefore, it can represent – ​​in symbolic terms – an important phase for us to reduce the pace of day-to-day activities and enjoy moments of rest.