What research shows
Not measured. Physical illness during sleep enters dream content directly, so this is worth ruling out first.
Objects
Dreaming about throwing up
Dreaming about throwing up is traditionally read as expelling something that cannot stay down — one of the most physical dreams there is. No survey has counted how often it occurs.
- Dream book of 1862
- Vomiting its heading in Fontaine
- Its lottery numbers
- 14 · 65 as printed in 1862
Dream book: Felix Fontaine, The Golden Wheel Dream-Book and Fortune-Teller (New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1862).
The psychological reading
Where there is no illness, the reading is rejection of something taken in — information, an arrangement, an expectation.
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When it turns up
Why this dream arrives when it does
Vomiting dreams are among the most physical there are, and the first thing to check is the body: nausea, alcohol, illness and reflux all generate them directly. Where the body is fine, the reading is expulsion — something that cannot stay down.
The version matters
Different ways this dream shows up
Being unable to stop is the distressing variant and reads as rejection that has gone past control.
Being unable to stop
Expulsion that runs beyond your control. It follows situations where something came out and kept coming — a confession, an argument.
Vomiting in public
Exposure attached to loss of control. It clusters before events where composure is expected.
Bringing up something unexpected
Objects, hair, small items. Disgust dreams frequently produce these and they read as something foreign that had been carried.
Someone else being sick
A common variant. It tends to accompany dealing with another person's crisis in a practical way.
Wanting to and not being able to
Relief withheld. It arrives when something needs saying and will not come out.
Feeling better afterward
The dream completes what the day could not.
How often do people look up this dream?
Throwing up ranks 22nd of the 111 themes here, with 1% of the searches; coffee leads the section at 13.8%.
Primary source
What a dream book said in 1862
“To dream of vomiting is usually a sign of health: if you imagine that you vomit up worms, it foretells that you will have good luck in preventing a loss, or a robbery.”
Felix Fontaine, The Golden Wheel Dream-Book and Fortune-Teller (New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1862) — read the original text.
Like other American dream books of its time, Fontaine read dreams as omens and attached lottery numbers to them; under “Vomiting” it printed 14, 65. Today’s dream dictionaries still echo readings like this one.
Commonly claimed, and wrong
What this dream does not mean
These dreams are not a sign of pregnancy, poisoning or illness to come. If nausea is genuinely present at night, that is a body question rather than a dream one.
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Asked most often
Questions about this dream
What does it mean to dream about throwing up?
Expelling something that cannot stay down, once a physical cause is ruled out. Check for nausea, alcohol or reflux first.
Does it mean I am pregnant?
No. Dreams carry no information about the body beyond the sensations you actually have while asleep.
Why did I feel better in the dream afterward?
Relief is a common ending here, and it fits the expulsion reading: something is finished rather than lost.
Other dreams about objects
Makeup
The face prepared for others
Pee
Bodily urgency that usually has a bodily cause
War
Conflict that has outgrown the people in it
Maggots
Decay already underway and visible
Beans
Sustenance stored rather than eaten
Christmas
A fixed date loaded with expectation
Closet
Storage for what is not on display
Broken glass
Something that cannot be reassembled
Sources
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