Thread: Urination dream sign.

I've done this enough times now to know it's a 100% reliable dream sign, for me at least. When you urinate yet feel no relief, it means you are dreaming!

I've done this in lucids before with the same result. Take a pee and notice that, even though I see the stream and hear the splashing, I never feel the relief. The same has held consistently true for non-lucids, like the one I just awoke from. I've had a bunch of non-lucid dreams where I have to pee so I find a bathroom and do so. The thing is, I never feel the relief aspect of the event.

In non-lucids where you pee but never end up feeling the relief as though you did, it means that you have to pee in real life. You peed in the dream because your physical body feels the urge. Yet, you don't feel as though you've peed because your physical body still has the urge to go. Odds are, you'll eventually wake up having to pee.

So... if you pee in a dream then think "it still feels like I have to go", you are dreaming. It's weird how, even though I've felt like I still had to go in many dreams, since the stream has cut off, I just go on my way and think nothing of it: even though it still feels like I have to go pee.

Now, if I could only remember this (partly why I'm making this topic) I can use this as a very reliable (albeit somewhat infrequent) dream sign. And now you can too.

Hehe, have you been reading my DJ lately? It's full of pee LOL

I agree with you that this is a good and reliable dream sign. Thanks for writing it down, I hope this also helps you in remembering.
Did you find my topic on improving your prospective memory? There's a task list that helps to train you in remembering dream signs

In the view of feeling physical 'relief' I would like to add drinking: If I'm thirsty in a dream I just can't get satisfied (or full) by drinking glass after glass... (usually when I drank to much alcohol before sleeping )

Originally Posted by Sara

improving your prospective memory? There's a task list that helps to train you in remembering dream signs

No. But I'll have to look for it.

Originally Posted by Sara

In the view of feeling physical 'relief' I would like to add drinking: If I'm thirsty in a dream I just can't get satisfied (or full) by drinking glass after glass... (usually when I drank to much alcohol before sleeping )

Good call on that one.

Make a method about that.

Whenever you go for a pee, do a reality check.

Drink a lot of water before you go to bed and you'll pee in the dream (hopefully) and then you'll reality check and become lucid.

Well done for finding that out, Oneironaught.

Yeah i get that too but never really used it as a dream sign. Nonetheless, just make sure you don't actually pee in real life. hahahah

Freud describes a similar technique for lucid dreaming in his Interpretation of Dreams.

- Drink a lot of water before retiring to bed.
- Fall asleep
- When you dream about water flowing, or drinking, etc., use it as a dream sign to know that you are dreaming.

This is becaue the feeling of the need to urinate has somatic manifestations in dream content.

The problem with this technique; potential to wet the bed.

Enjoy!
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Another problem --you are probably going to wake up right away and ruin your dream, because you have to go pee.