Washing Machine

Cleaning up your act in the sense of dealing with past negative feelings or habits. Thus, it can suggest making changes in the way you go about things or present yourself.

Example: I was watching a man who insisted on living in a small stable like room that was foul with his shit and urine. He wouldn’t go out or clean it and his clothes too were filthy. He wouldn’t be helped but blamed his condition on anything and anyone but himself. As I watched though, he came to the point of accepting responsibility for his own condition. He came out, and we then happily asked if we could put his clothes in the washing machine. He started a new life. Dennis.

Dennis had been passing through a period of recognising how fears, guilt and lack of confidence had imprisoned him. He had literally been living in this emotional ‘shit’ for years.

Example: I was in a washing machine shop. I had bought the machine from them and expected it to be under warranty now that it was broken but they didn’t want to be responsible for it. My mother was with me and the salesman was showing us how washing machines can become damaged and my mother looked inside and nearly put her whole body in. I was worried she’d fall in. And I told the salesman that I certainly wouldn’t buy a new one from them if they didn’t stand behind the one they’d already sold me.

I see this as something that is an automatic body function that is not working well. Pity the dreamer didn’t say what the salesman said was the problem or what the mother found.

The washing machine can point to faults within you. A woman dreamt she was washing white clothes in a large amount of water while her friend Alice watched her from the background. In this dream, Alice, the “friend” in the background, was the dreamer herself. Her own comments on Alice were that she possessed a great deal of spiritual knowledge but applied little of it to her daily life. Therefore, the dream was urging her to greater application – represented by washing clothes in the machine.

It can be less dramatic and relate to washing away yesterday’s problems, or refreshing, restoring, making the best of what you have. If you usually wash your items in a washing machine at home but are in the public laundromat it could suggest you are washing your dirty items in public.  See Washing