I helped start a subreddit that was like “thatweirdbathroomdream” or something, I don’t remember it was easily a decade ago explicitly for people to talk about their weird bathrooms! Apparently it’s a typically American dream (so is losing your teeth but cutting your hair/hair falling out is more universal) and typically includes unusual open spaces, lack of privacy, unusual lighting, they typically also are clean like this or filthy, or at least the toilet you interact with could be filthy. I find collective cultural dreams to be SO fascinating
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User0123@lemmus.org 2 months ago
I feel like I’ve dreamt of this exact bathroom
Zenith@lemm.ee 2 months ago
lunarul@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It felt so creepy when I saw the picture and got a flashback of dreaming that bathroom. It got doubly creepy when I found a comment about it already. But I’m not American.
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I came here to say I have had this dream. This is creepy as shit and I don’t want to go to sleep now.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Until this post I didn’t know this was a thing. I thought I just had a weird bathroom kink or something, but I’ve had lots of dreams with bathrooms very similar to this. Had no idea this was a shared experience.
I also often end up peeing on something in the weird bathroom and the suddenly realizing that the thing I’m peeing on is not supposed to be peed upon and feel awful about it, and sometimes someone comes in and sees me peeing on the part I wasnt supposed to be peeing on.
Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 2 months ago
For the 100th time, stop saying it was a dream, that does not excuse you peeing on everything. Stop it!
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
One of my ex co-workers came home drunk with his wife They went to bed he got up and peed right in the laundry basket. Jay wtf are you doing? I’m going to the John, yawn, wait what the Fuckkk
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This reminds me of a weird bathroom dream I had once. I was at the gym and went to the restroom where there were about 90 toilets, all in glass stalls that were maybe waist-high so when you sit you can see everyone’s face.
Anyway I ended up walking almost clear to the back because most were messy beyond comprehension and I swear it’s for every time I’ve scrubbed a toilet for work.
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 2 months ago
The first part sounds like an average american experience, not like a dream.
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org 2 months ago
Konfuzius once said: “If you dream of a bathroom, don’t use it!”
Kuma@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe that is why in my dream ppl came in all the time to disturb me when I was about to shit haha
Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Me too!
There’s at least… Three of us now.
My dream is almost this exact room, but ALSO notable by it being connected to an entire labyrinth of doors and hallways and other rooms.
My dream tends to go: I am outside or in a lobby area. I need to go. I go into the bathroom door, which leads to more doors, and more hallways and more doors, and eventually I get to the room pictured and I’m like, noooo, so I keep going and go though the next door and keep going on my journey, coming across room after room of varying AWFUL configurations and usability. If a toilet is clean, it’s just out in the open, if it’s a nice private one, it’s clogged. I continue on, sometimes encountering a sauna room with pools and bathtubs. I never stop. I have to go. More hallways, more weird rooms. If I ever do end up finding a place to go it only ever lasts 5 seconds and then someone else comes in and sits right across from me and since no doors it’s awkward. And something always goes wrong too. No TP, doesn’t flush, I miss entirely, etc. And when I finally get to wash my hands there is never soap and usually no water or something doesn’t work. And I also sometimes the get caught in another loop of trying to find a working sink, or soap. it’s HELL.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Same here it’s so frustrating. It’s usually when I actually have to pee. Would be cool if I could just wake up to actually go to the bathroom instead of going through this while show. Luckily the brain is at least smart enough to not mix up the dream with reality
gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Yup same. And many like it. Good to know that this experience is shared lol. All the stalls will probably either be empty, locked, or have something fucked up in it.
Mist101@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep, and the only available one is overflowing with piss-n-shit water, and the toilet paper is soggy, and there are no papertowels and the soap is empty and the sinks are just more toilet bowls full of piss-n-shit water.
User0123@lemmus.org 2 months ago
Why is it always like that, it’s gotta mean something right ?
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s like that, disgusting and/or exposed, because your body is trying to keep you from pissing the bed. When you start to have a dream like that, wake up and you’ll realize you need to go to the bathroom. Your own clean normal private bathroom.
stelelor@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
That makes sense, that it would be your subconscious alerting. In a similar vein, whenever I know I need to shower first thing in the morning (as opposed to before bed), I often dream of showering on the bed. Yes, like standing on the mattress on top of all the sheets and pillows and blankets. Or at least somewhere in the bedroom, like on carpeted floor next to wooden furniture. I HATE those dreams so much but they keep happening.
protist@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Perhaps everybody poops and thus has poop on the brain
criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And then you weirdly end up pissing in the sink.
protist@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Nope, it was def a #2 dream
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Hm. Interesting how negatively coded this scene is when I hear people talk about their own “that one dream public bathroom”.
I distinctively remember mine having knee-high cloudy water, but it was very dark. My innate “understanding” in the dream is that the water is some kind of natural feature, not sewage. I don’t remember the sinks, tissues, cleanliness or of the bowls, or anything, just the incredibly weird layout and flooding, and the weird lack of privacy due to the doors and walls of the stalls being higher to accommodate the water.
US style stalls where you can conveniently park your XXXL truck under the divider aren’t a thing here.
stelelor@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You forgot the leaking pipes, so of course everything relatively safe to touch is also wet and cold.