Dreaming of feces
Unpleasant to dream and awkward to look up — but in Korean tradition this is one of the strongest wealth dreams there is, second only to the pig.
Korean 해몽 turns this one completely around. 똥꿈 is read as a 길몽, an auspicious dream, and among wealth signs it stands beside the pig. The old reasoning is agricultural and unembarrassed: in a farming country, human and animal waste was fertiliser — the thing that made next year's harvest possible. Abundance began there. The tradition reads volume as scale, so the larger and more overwhelming the dream felt, the bigger the reading; and it reads contact as ownership, so being touched or covered by it is read more strongly than merely seeing it.
- You are covered in it, or fall into it
- The strongest reading in the entry. Exactly the version people find most distressing is the one the tradition calls most fortunate.
- A great quantity of it
- Read by size: a large amount is read as a large fortune, a small amount as a small and ordinary one.
- You carry it, gather it, or take it home
- Read as fortune you take possession of rather than fortune you happen to witness.
- You clean it away, or wash it off
- Here the tradition softens the sign: the money is read as passing through rather than staying. Not a bad dream — a smaller one.
There is a reason people search this one in private. It is worth knowing that the tradition has no embarrassment about it at all, and no judgement of the dreamer either. It is a dream about the ground being fertile, nothing more and nothing less.
Why is a feces dream lucky in Korea?
Because in a farming society waste was fertiliser, and fertiliser was next year's food. The chain from waste to harvest to wealth is the whole reasoning, and it is stated plainly in the old books.
Is it a bad dream if it felt disgusting?
No. The tradition reads the discomfort as part of the sign's strength, not against it. How the dream felt does not flip the reading.
Does it mean anything about my health?
No. This is a wealth reading in a dream tradition. We do not make health claims, and nothing here can tell you anything about your body.
On the dream page you write your dream in your own words, and Bokki does not guess at it — she compares your sentence against a fixed list of words, one list per symbol. (If a language model is reachable it writes the reply instead; the word list is the reader that is always there.) This symbol is called by 11 words:
| Script | Words that call this symbol |
|---|---|
| Hangul | 똥 · 대변 · 배변 |
| Japanese | 糞 · うんち |
| Latin script (English, Spanish, Portuguese) | poop · feces · heces · caca · fezes · cocô |
None of this symbol's Hangul words is a one-syllable noun plus a case particle, so none of them needs that extra left-boundary rule.
Latin-script words count at word boundaries only, so a longer word that merely happens to contain those letters does not count. The plural tails -s and -es are allowed, so a plural still counts as the same word.
Japanese and Han-character words have no space marking where a word ends, so they are still matched as plain substrings. We would rather say that than pretend the reader is cleverer than it is.
In the dictionary this symbol sits at position 3 of 32. When one dream touches several symbols, only the first 4 in that order are shown, so a dream that touches many symbols may not reach this one.
Tell Bokki the whole dream in your own words →
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These are readings from Korean 해몽 tradition, not predictions. Nothing here calculates your future, and we will not pretend it does.