If the bath is nice it indicates that such harmony is near. On the other hand, if the water is too hot or too cold is a sign that sometimes you are not honest enough.
If you are not comfortable with your feelings, taking a bath is like a psychological cleansing. The water represents your emotional nature and the action symbolizes the desire of get rid of old attitudes, negativity, guilt... Some suggest that in this dream the bath water is like the mother’s womb. The subject’s desire is to return to such safety and warmth.
Formerly, it was believed that washing with water eradicated not only dirt from the body but also sins from the soul. Conversely, bathing and cleaning oneself means expelling the subject’s good fortune. To prepare a bath, however, is an omen of a battle won. [1]
For a pregnant woman to dream this, denotes miscarriage or accident.
For a man, adultery. Dealings of all kinds should be carried on with discretion after this dream.
To go in bathing with others, evil companions should be avoided. Defamation of character is likely to follow.
If the water is muddy, evil, indeed death, and enemies are near you.
For a widow to dream of her bath, she has forgotten her former ties, and is hurrying on to earthly loves. Girls should shun male companions. Men will engage in intrigues of salacious character.
A warm bath is generally significant of evil.
A cold, clear bath is the fore-runner of joyful tidings and a long period of excellent health. Bathing in a clear sea, denotes expansion of business and satisfying research after knowledge. [2]
If you are currently changing things in your daily life, or if you have freed yourself from bothersome emotions, this dream may be an affirmation of that. Taking a bath represents a cleansing of the outer self, the washing away of those things that are difficult or disturbing and relaxing for a while.
The deeper meaning may be that the bath represents the letting go of old and useless ideas, opinions or prejudices. Often this dream is a call to relax, to free your mind of daily troubles, and to put your problems away for a while.
See also: Baptism.
(2) If the imagery of bathing or washing yourself recurs in your dreams, then almost certainly it indicates neurotic guilt-feelings.
(3) Otherwise, and particularly if the washing is of the body and not just of the hands, it may symbolize the getting rid of old and negative attitudes / habits / emotional reactions. [6]
If you are taking a bath, you are in need of a vacation If you are in a bath with other people (or a sauna, or hot tub) you should be cautious of business dealings.
If you are bathing in dirty water, people are going to gossip. [7]
A bath can also represent nurturing, pampering, and -love. [8]
2. A kind of cleansing, usually emotional, after difficult challenges.
3. A new beginning (as in “baptism”).
4. A need to rethink a plan or project if the water is either too hot or too cold.
5. Financial or professional success, based on the clarity or condition of the water. [9]
If the bath was cold or too hot you will have to revise some favorite plan, but if the temperature was pleasantly warm, your current expectations will be realized.
If the water is too hot or too cold, however, your plans for the immediate future need some revision. [11]
2. Doing the Word Lev. 15:5;
3. Baptism (immersion in a bath). Eph. 5:26; Num. 19:9, [14]
empty, an: don’t proceed with your plan in anger.
lathering your body in a: good news is below the encrusted old.
preparing a: fight with the old to make way for the new.
children, for: happiness is yours.
mate: high ambitions of self-indulgence wil be realized.
robe, wearing a: need aid from relatives to cleanse family debts.
sun, taking a: lush green foliage and fresh country air.
being criticized for: it is easy for others to condemn you for things they can’t do.
with family: unexpected advances.
sweetheart: warm affection previously unknown to you.
taking a, at bedtime: you wil surrender to a lover.
cold water, in: only direct involvement leads to success.
early in the morning: old anxieties in your dreams wil be washed away.
evening, in the: strengthen outer self to al ow cleansing of inner self.
ice water, in: disgrace from prejudicial acts.
lukewarm water, in: serious state of unwanted emotional dirt.
noon, at: the beginning of the healing process.
warm water, in: you wil be separated from love through lack of interest. [17]
If in his dream, one shaves his hair when taking a bath, it means loss of his wealth or cheating on his wife. Shaving the pubic region in a dream represents benefits and increases in pubic hair in a dream means increase in money. Bath in itself denotes many things.
(See also: Turkish bath) [18]