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What are door dreams about?

The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about door dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with door dreams. These are the words that make door dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of door dreams can be illuminating about show doors affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example door dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how doors in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that door is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that door is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, door dreams have more hearing than 96.9% of dream symbols, more home than 96.8% of dream symbols, and more touch than 95.6% of dream symbols. On the other hand, door dreams have less good dreams than 73.4% of dream symbols, less love than 73.1% of dream symbols, and less sadness than 66.0% of dream symbols. Notably, door dreams might be nightmares! Though even if these dreams are nightmares, it doesn't necessarily mean that they are bad dreams or that doors is a bad thing to dream about. It just means that dreams of doors are more likely to be nightmares than dreams of other things. Additionally, dreams of doors are friendly! These dreams have more friendly interactions than 80% of all of the other dream symbols. Friendly dreams can be great. They involve people helping other people, expressing love, and just being good to one another. Also, dreams of doors are aggressive! Door dreams have more aggressive interactions than 80% of all of the other dream symbols. Aggressive interactions involve attacks, arguments, yelling, pushing, killing, and so on. These dreams can be scary, stressful, or confusing. But, as with all dreams, it is best to explore what is there. Why was there aggression? Was it really aggression? Additionally, dreams of doors are auditory! They focus on sounds and hearing. Dreaming is primarily a visual medium. We see in our dreams, but hearing is less dominant. It is interesting to explore why doors in dreams could be related to hearing. Finally, dreams of doors have more words related to touch than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, door dreams involve directly interacting and feeling another person or object. Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of doors is different than dreams of doors in general.

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of dreams have doors

How common are door dreams?

14% of dreams have the doors symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 7 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is very common.

Identification

How are door dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like door. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols places and parts of buildings.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of doors?

Doors dreams are notable because they have substantially more verbs, movement, general movement, open doors, front doors, closed doors, locked doors, back doors, unlocked doors, opening, locks than 95% of other dream symbols.

Least related

What symbols least related to dreams of doors?

Doors dreams are notable because they have substantially less pheasants, C-3PO, emaciation, Somalia, Kuwait, Fiji, El Salvador, Cyprus, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Algeria than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into door dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in door dreams.

Who is in dreams of doors?

Who is in dreams of doors?

Dreams of doors are more related to animals, more related to unnamed people, and more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general.

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What are the emotions in dreams of doors?

What are the emotions in dreams of doors?

Dreams of doors are more related to confusion and much more related to fear than dreams in general. They are less related to sadness, less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to hatred.

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Where do dreams of doors take place?

Where do dreams of doors take place?

Dreams of doors are much more related to home, more related to human-made places, and more related to transportation than dreams in general.

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What happens in dreams of doors?

What happens in dreams of doors?

Dreams of doors are more related to aggressive acts and more related to friendly acts than dreams in general.

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How do dreams of doors related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of doors related to the type of dream it is?

Door dreams are more related to nightmares, more related to recurring dreams, and more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general. They are less related to good dreams.

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How do dreams of doors related the senses?

How do dreams of doors related the senses?

Door dreams are much more related to hearing, more related to smelling, and much more related to vision than dreams in general.

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How can you make sense of doors in dreams?

Door dreams are very common. Among other things door dreams are nightmares, friendly, aggressive, focused on sounds, focused on touch, focused on vision, and containing lots of movement. Do you think this is true for your dream of doors? How might your dream of doors be different?

All dreams have meaning

All dreams have meaning

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

Look for the differences

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience doors in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

Return to the feelings

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about doors in dreams. See how you feel about doors now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of door dreams

An interpretation of door dreams

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. The symbolism of a door in a dream can connect with the idea of stepping into a new area of life, or having a new experience, which are commonly depicted as walking through a door. Doors are associated with choices. When you dream about making choices, that can be visualized as your having a number of doors from which to choose. For example, you can choose among schools, subjects to study, or places to live. You subconsciously know what’s behind the doors and what picking one means. A door can be used make choices about what sort of person you are or will become. For example, a woman with a limited sex life dreams about being in a red-light district with her girlfriends, just for fun, and she sees a beautiful woman on display behind a window. Next to the window is a door, and she knows what going through the door means. Her girlfriends push her toward it and for a moment she’s ready to give in to the temptation, but turns away. This shows her decision to remain in a limited sex life. She’s not ready. Her friends in the dream are the sexually adventurous ones who push her to be more like them. Doors are used in dream imagery related to areas of the mind. When a dream visits a certain area of your memory, for instance, it can visualize that area as being behind a door. This use of the symbolism often goes hand in hand with finding unexplored rooms in your house. The house is your psyche, and the unexplored rooms are unknown parts of yourself. See: Psyches Along this line, a common dream theme involves barging through the door and into a scene where you are unwelcome. The dream characters act like you’re an intruder. And they’re right: you have entered an area of your psyche that you’re not ready to access. You have more maturing to do first. Locking a door can symbolize keeping something out of your life. See: Locks Unlocking a door can symbolize getting access to something that had been denied to you. See: Keys A back door can symbolize a secret or some way you’re vulnerable. See: Back doors The front door of your home is the boundary between your private life inside the home and your public life outside of it. Therefore, dreams featuring your front door can connect with subjects of privacy, intrusion, and what you share about yourself publicly. A man dreams about going to his new home where his family and friends have a house-warming party. He’s not much interested in socializing and is happy when they all leave, and he can be alone. As soon as he sits down, someone knocks at the front door. He opens the door and no one is there. He sits back down he sees an indistinct white figure come to the door and knock, and when he opens the door it is gone. And it happens again and again, angering him. The dream is about the subject of privacy and solitude. The dreamer is reclusive and entering a stage of life where he can keep people out of his life, a stage symbolized by moving into a new home—obviously symbolism because he is not actually moving into a new home. The front door symbolizes the boundary he sets up against intrusions into his life, and the action at the front door symbolizes his frustration at being unable to keep people out. It’s not particular people, it’s people in general, symbolized as the indistinct white figure. See also: Back doors, Burglary, Darkness, Discovering, Home, Intruders, Keys, Locks, Psyches, Strangers

Examples of dreams of doors

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of door dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for door dreams. Read at your own risk.

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