Dreaming Lens: Was it your feces in the dream? Was it someone else’s? Were you in the process of moving your bowels, needing to, or was it after the fact? What were you doing with the feces? Was the experience repulsive? Was it matter-of-fact and free of judgment?
Personal Focus: While the elimination of waste might be the first thought that comes to mind when thinking of feces, at the heart of it, bowel movements are our first connection to us as creative beings. Consider the power and intensity associated with potty training and all the effort that goes into guiding a child toward controlling this bodily function. This period in a child’s life has a profound impact on how they operate in the world.
Often the most effective method of this training involves helping a child make a creative connection to what comes out in the toilet. For the young mind, this is quite an impressive feat. When taken in this perspective, defecation or feces in a dream is always going to connect first to personal creative power. Then and only then, the Personal Focus should be added to inform you what your unconscious is trying to communicate. Whatever that turns out to be, it is likely going to be about the state of your individual, creative affairs.
Notice whether the experience in your dream is repulsive or not. Often in such a dream, there may not be an association to feces as dirty. If the experience is indeed repugnant, then you may be in some form of resistance to a deeper process that is going on that may require getting “down and dirty” with Shadow material. Eating feces points to needing to integrate your own creativity into some aspect of your life. Playing with or handling feces (and how you felt about doing so) may indicate your level of comfort with a transition in your life that may be requiring you to go deeper into your “own shit” in order to find a new sense of self. [1]