<p>Great question, I was actually about to give an answer that was completely wrong but I decided to do a little research and found out what it really was so thanks for asking the question!!</p><p>So dry fasting is basically a type of fasting where you don't EAT or DRINK anything for a stipulated amount of time, or for a particular amount of time everyday. It's often done for religious purposes or simply to cleanse the body of any and all things that you've invested in the last couple of days.</p><p>Apparently there are actually two types of dry fasting, there's soft dry fasting and hard dry fasting.</p><p>Hard dry fasting is the ultimate type of fasting, it's the real deal, you aren't even allowed to let a single drop of water touch your body for any reason whatsoever. The only thing that's allowed to enter your body is air from your nostrils.</p><p>Soft dry fasting is a type of dry fasting where you are allowed to at least come in contact with water. You are allowed to brush your teeth and take a bath, you just aren't allowed to ingest anything...I wonder if you're allowed to swallow saliva.</p><p>From what I've just learned, I can say in good faith that I've never actually performed a dry fast before, I've done a 21 day fast from 6am to 6pm every day, but even during the fasting period, the only thing I wasn't allowed to do was eat, I could drink water but no food was allowed to enter my mouth. Maybe I'll give dry fasting a try.</p><p>I hope this helps.</p>

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<p>Dry fasting really occur when one need to seek the face of the Lotd in a particular issue, dry fasting is also practice in most country in the world during their famestival for them to seek the face of their gods for a particular thing like India during their festival they observe dry fasting. </p>