The Biblical Meaning of Feces in a Dream

The biblical meaning of feces in a dream is uncleanliness, humiliation, spiritual growth, and unhealthy feelings or mindsets. It is important to explore what you were doing and feeling in the dream to further understand the meaning.

Overall, dreaming of poop is usually symbolic, not literal. Symbolic dreams usually have a hidden meaning that is related to your everyday life. God often speaks in parables and riddles to encourage believers to seek him for the interpretation. Fortunately, God has given you “the secrets of the kingdom of heaven” to help you understand his messages. (Matthew 13:11)

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Examples of Common Dreams with Feces

• Dreaming of stepping in feces. This could symbolize feeling contaminated or tainted by negative emotions or experiences in your waking life. The act of stepping in feces may represent feeling overwhelmed or burdened by unhealthy thoughts or behaviors.
• Interpretation: This dream suggests that you may be dealing with feelings of shame or embarrassment due to past mistakes or undesirable circumstances. It could also indicate a need to cleanse yourself emotionally or spiritually from negative emotions or toxic relationships.

• Dreaming of cleaning up feces. This could symbolize a desire to rid yourself of guilt or shame, or it may reflect a need to address and resolve messy or unpleasant situations in your life.
• Interpretation: This dream suggests that you are taking proactive steps to purify your life and eliminate negativity. It may indicate a willingness to confront difficult issues or make amends for past actions.

• Dreaming of being surrounded by feces. This could symbolize feeling overwhelmed or surrounded by negativity, chaos, or unpleasantness in your waking life.
• Interpretation: This dream suggests that you may be feeling trapped or suffocated by negative emotions or circumstances. It may indicate a need to distance yourself from toxic emotions or influences and to seek support to navigate challenging situations.

• Dreaming of feces in unexpected places (e.g., in your bed or on your clothes). This could symbolize feeling invaded or contaminated by negative influences or emotions in your waking life.
• Interpretation: This dream suggests that you may be struggling to maintain boundaries or protect yourself from harmful people or situations. It may indicate a need to establish clearer boundaries or take measures to safeguard your emotional well-being. Also, it may reflect a need to heal inner emotions that make you feel icky.

• Dreaming of feces being used as fertilizer. This could symbolize the potential for growth, renewal, or transformation arising from difficult or unpleasant experiences in your life.
• Interpretation: This dream suggests that you may find value or meaning in challenging circumstances or setbacks. It may indicate a belief in your ability to turn adversity into opportunity or to find beauty in the midst of chaos.

What is the biblical meaning of feces in a dream?

The biblical meaning of poop in a dream is uncleanliness, humiliation, and unhealthy feelings or mindsets. To further understand your dream, review the interpretations based on the Bible, your emotions, and the actions within your dream.

Also, consider your own journey with feces. Perhaps, your dream is highlighting your own personal battle with health and constipation. If so, seeking medical help may help alleviate your fears. And a doctor can help address the potential problem.

Or, your dream might represent feces as a fertilizer. If poop is being used in farming, then your dream is showing growth. Feces causes soil to be fertile which produces healthy crops that bares fruit. Perhaps, you are in a season to produce much spiritual fruit?

1. The Biblical Meaning of Feces is Uncleanliness

Dreaming of poop can represent feeling exposed in certain areas. Specifically areas where there is shame due to present or past sins. Consider your feelings and actions, have you done something that is overwhelming you? Perhaps, you have done something that is in the view of the public eye.

Your dream is most likely reminding you to flush out the poop (embarrassments). Therefore, evaluate every area for something you’re disgusted by or ashamed of. Then, begin healing and practicing righteousness in those areas. These actions are the beginning steps to clean up any defiled and unclean areas in your life.

"Then he said to me, “See, I assign to you cow's dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.” (Ezekiel 4:15)

In the Bible, Ezekiel prophesied that God would not protect Jerusalem due to their sin and unrepentance. He would allow the King of Assyria to conquer them by a siege. To symbolize this prophesy, God instructed Ezekiel to cook his food over a fired fueled by human dung. Ezekiel begged God to use a less disgusting option — cow’s dung. God granted his request. This was an image of the defiled food that the children of Israel would be forced to eat during the upcoming war.

Then, Ezekiel’s warnings of the war proved true 5 years after his prophesy.

In Isaiah 36:12, Rabshakeh threatened to involve Jerusalem in war. Rabshakeh was a messenger and field commander sent by Sennacherib, king of Assyria to deliver a message to the King Hezekiah of Judah. They planned to surround the city and stop food from entering. This would cause the people to starve and resort to eating their own dung.

Also, there are four other circumstances in the Bible where God sees the sinful behaviors of man as dung. (Jeremiah 8:2; 9:22; 16:4; and 25:33)

2. The Biblical Meaning of Feces is Humiliation

Dreaming of exposed feces represents humiliation. Is it your poop or someone else’s? The poop belongs to the person that feels embarrassed and defeated. And unfortunately, this emotion is causing public embarrassment and fear of others seeing it.

The Bible has many stories where feces represents humiliation. This is exhibited in the Zephaniah 1:17 and 2 Kings 9:37 where dung was used to describe the defeat of individuals such as Jezebel. More specifically, in Malachi 2:3, God threatened to “spread dung on the faces” of the priests that were presenting unholy/unclean worship and offerings to God.

"Because of you I will rebuke your descendants; I will smear on your faces the dung from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it." (Malachi 2:3)

Frequently Asked Questions

1. The Biblical Meaning of Eating Feces in a Dream

Eating feces in your dream represents shame, feelings of defeat, and loss of hope. Consider areas of your life where you may be hiding from others and God.

Also, in which areas do you feel defeated? Eating dung is a sign that you feel trapped. Therefore, this type of dream is a revelation of inner emotions that require attention. Heal these fears to escape from any emotional prison that is keeping you trapped.

2. The Biblical Meaning of Cleaning Feces in a Dream

Cleaning up feces represents the removal of sin, rebellion, and unhealthy practices or influences in your life. This type of dream indicates a period of purification in your life. This is a good thing. It means that God is restoring your life, mind, body, and soul.

In the Bible, God gave instructions for keeping the battlefield clean and holy. This was done by covering one’s poop. This was symbolic of living Holy lives, so God “may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.” (Deuteronomy 23:14)

You shall have a designated area outside the camp to which you shall go. With your utensils you shall have a trowel; when you relieve yourself outside, you shall dig a hole with it and then cover up your excrement. (Deuteronomy 23:12-13)

3. The Biblical Meaning of Seeing Feces in a Dream

The biblical meaning of seeing feces in a dream represents your ability to see the wrongs of people around you.

The poop belongs to the person struggling with unhealthy emotions and behaviors. It may be a good time to pray for God to further expose and remove hidden sin within you and those around you. This will help you navigate the next steps.

4. The Biblical Meaning of Diarrhea in a Dream

The Bible is referred to as solid food that nourishes a believer’s body. The more healthy a person is causes their body to break down food in a healthy fashion.

However, diarrhea happens when something goes wrong in the bodies’ cleansing process. The presence of unhealthy food or medical issues is usually the main cause.

Therefore, you are dreaming of diarrhea because you’re consuming unhealthy doctrine or mindset. Or you may have a unhealthy mindset which stops you from getting the full nutrients of the Gospel.

5. The Biblical Meaning of Defecating in a Dream

Defecating is a natural process to cleanse the body of toxins and waste. Therefore, the biblical meaning of defecating in a dream is cleansing. This dream is showing that you are successfully removing things from your life that can cause you to be backed up. Congratulations, you are pushing forward and removing unhealthy mindsets.

6. The Biblical Meaning of Dog Poop in a Dream

Dreaming of dog poop represents responsibilities, burdens, and duties that you need to take care of. Ultimately, if you take ownership of your tasks and love others well, then you can live a clean life that attracts the goodness of God.

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