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Japanese No. The Bible never mentions urinating in a dream, and it gives no key for interpreting dream images of any kind. When two of Pharaoh’s officials told Joseph their dreams, he answered, “Do not interpretations belong to God?” (Genesis 40:8). A meaning for urination dreams that is presented as biblical has no passage behind it.
Does the Bible mention urination?
Rarely, and never in a dream. The King James Version has the phrase “any that pisseth against the wall” in threats to wipe out a man’s family (1 Samuel 25:22, 34; 1 Kings 14:10; 16:11; 21:21; 2 Kings 9:8). The Hebrew lexicon of Brown, Driver and Briggs explains the phrase as meaning a male person, and the English Standard Version simply says “male.” At the siege of Jerusalem an Assyrian officer told the men on the wall that they were “doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine” (2 Kings 18:27).
Elsewhere the Bible uses euphemisms. When Saul went into a cave “to relieve himself” (1 Samuel 24:3), the Hebrew says he went in “to cover his feet,” as the King James Version renders it. The law of Moses told Israel to keep a latrine outside the camp and to bury waste, “because the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp” (Deuteronomy 23:12–14). Jesus spoke of food that “passes into the stomach and is expelled” to teach that what defiles a person comes from the heart (Matthew 15:17–18). None of these passages describes a dream, and none makes urine a symbol.
Does anyone in the Bible dream about urinating?
No. The dreams Scripture records include Jacob’s ladder (Genesis 28:12), Joseph’s sheaves and stars (Genesis 37:5–10), Pharaoh’s cows and ears of grain (Genesis 41) and the warnings given to Joseph, the husband of Mary (Matthew 1:20; 2:13). None involves a bodily function. Where these dreams are interpreted, the interpretation is credited to God. Joseph told Pharaoh, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer” (Genesis 41:16).
What does the Bible say about interpreting dreams?
It allows that God can speak in dreams and warns against trusting them. God says of a prophet, “I speak with him in a dream” (Numbers 12:6), but Israel was not to follow “a prophet or a dreamer of dreams” who led them to other gods, even if his sign came true (Deuteronomy 13:1–3). Through Jeremiah God rebuked prophets who told their own dreams as his message: “Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat?” (Jeremiah 23:28). The book of Sirach, part of the Old Testament in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles, says of dreams: “Unless they are sent from the Most High as a visitation, do not give your mind to them. For dreams have deceived many” (Sirach 34:6–7).
What Christian teachers said about dreams and the body
Christian writers long ago recognized that the body shapes dreams. Pope Gregory the Great, in his Dialogues (book 4), listed six kinds of dreams. Some, he wrote, “proceed of too much fulness or emptiness of the stomach,” others from illusion or revelation, and “seeing dreams do grow from such divers roots, with so much the more difficulty ought we to believe them.” Thomas Aquinas taught that dreams have causes in the soul, since “those things which have occupied a man’s thoughts and affections while awake recur to his imagination while asleep,” and causes in the body. His example comes from the medicine of his day: “a man in whom there is abundance of cold humors dreams that he is in the water or snow.” Using dreams to foretell the future, beyond what such causes explain or God has revealed, he held, is unlawful divination (Summa Theologiae II-II, question 95, article 6).
Why do people dream about urinating?
Medicine points to the body. Cleveland Clinic explains that as the bladder fills, “it sends a signal to your brain,” and that “a full bladder continues to send signals to your brain so that you’ll wake up.” Sleep researchers have also shown that sensations during sleep can enter dreams: in a 1958 study by William Dement and Edward Wolpert, sleepers sprayed with cold water worked it into up to 42 percent of their dream reports, according to a 2024 review in Sleep Medicine Reviews. That experiment used cold water, not a full bladder.
Does it mean anything to dream that someone urinates on you?
Scripture gives no meaning for that dream, or for dreams of a child urinating or of blood in the urine. The same is true of other dreams about the body, such as dreams about menstruation.
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