What are door dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like door.
Doors in dreams is a very common dream symbol, occuring in about 13% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 8 dreams.
What are the major highlights of door dreams?
Doors is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having doors in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.
Door dreams are friendly
Dreams of doors have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of doors will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of doors are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include playing, emotions, general movement, bartenders, distant people, intensifiers, buildings, accountants, snack, and walls.
Dreams of doors are aggressive
Door dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all doors have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having doors in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include hunger, bankruptcy, Cameroon, pulling, earthquakes, anger, noises, other verbs, obeying, and Morocco.
Dreams with doors might be a nightmare
Dreams of doors are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain doors might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with doors are not nightmares. But, dreams of doors are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include Jamaica, mouths, lodging, stomachs, dissecting, escaping, killing, Kenya, therapists, and black.
Door dreams are scary
Dreams containing doors are more related to fear than 90% of all other dream symbols. Of course each dream is unique and this does not mean that all dreams of doors are about fear. It simply means that if you dream of doors, this dream has a great chance of being scarier than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include psyches, events, dream events, opening, kayaks, creatures, suffering, waking, tranquility, and screaming.
What symbols more present in dreams of doors?
Door dreams are notable because they have substantially more closets, verbs, pinecones, back doors, locks, laundry rooms, movement, Congo, intruders, janitors, hallways, entrances, bathroom stalls, general movement, pressing buttons, dead ends, exits, keys, bird cages, attics, opening, living rooms, undressing, garages, barns, lodging, Croatia, balconies, basements, glowing eyes, orange eyes, rooms, red eyes, kitchens, white eyes, elevators, guest rooms, senses, descending, apartments, lobbies, wilderness, tasers, things, abandoned places, greeting, baggage, noises, wrestling, librarians, characters, mansions, family homes, silence, going, ducks, chimneys, mazes, pushing, and ovens than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of doors?
Door dreams are notable because they have substantially less giving birth, teeth falling out, crushes, pregnancy, places, parts of buildings, doors, Donald Trump, miscarriages, falling in love, the future, social media, former partners, infidelity, precognitive dreams, love, tsunamis, the earth, subconscious, pus, whales, boyfriends, depression, seeing a dead relative, donkeys, seeing a dead friend, relationship events, acne, the planets, cancer, surgery, sadness, menstruation, social media, weddings, the night, adoptions, fish, dating, pregnancy tests, nuclear bombs, romantic partners, large celestial bodies, three eyes, and sex than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of doors affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in doors dreams?
Overall, dreams with doors are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of doors are more related to animals, more related to fantastic beings, and more related to distant people than dreams in general.
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Who is in doors dreams?
Overall, dreams with doors are much more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of doors are much more related to home, more related to transportation, and more related to magical places than dreams in general.
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What happens in doors dreams?
Overall, dreams with doors are more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of doors are more related to aggressive interactions and more related to friendly interactions than dreams in general.
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How do doors in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with doors are much more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of doors are more related to nightmares, more related to recurring dreams, and more related to recurring nightmares 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 very postively interconnected, friendly, aggressive, nightmare, and scary.
Do you think this is true for your dream of doors? How might your dream of doors be different?
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
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
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.
What are possible meanings for dreams of doors?
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
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.
Examples of dreams of doors
Read some real dream reports of door dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.
HAS ANYONE EXPERIENCED PARALYSATION???
I had the awful dream a few weeks ago. I was sleeping and dreaming and in my dream I found myself in a long dark hall, I did not recognise it. There were doors at the side and there seemed to be people questioning people in all these rooms, it seemed very serious. I then awoke but I didn't open my eyes, or I did have them open but maybe my room was pitch black, anyways. I could distinctly hear my bed creaking. I was lying on my stomach with half my lef off my bed (ahhh I know....forbidden :0) But it was fking scary, I was paralysed, actually paralysed. no matter how hard I tried I could not move (this is all irl) All of a sudden a really loud flapping sound appears. It sounded like a massive bird was flapping its wing right infront of my face and I couldn't open my eyes to see it or reach out and touch it and I was so frightend. I physically felt the wings touch my face and when I could finally move everything was completely silent. I couldn't sleep the rest of the night. Has anyone else experienced paralysation, sounds, and feeling touched???
I had the awful dream a few weeks ago. I was sleeping and dreaming and in my dream I found myself in a long dark hall, I did not recognise it. There were doors...
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Had a dream when I was 10 with a girl I didn’t know in it. We’re dating now.
I’ll try to keep this as short as possible, I have ADHD and my stories turn into ramblings most of the time.
Anyways.
When I was about 10 or so, I had this dream where me and this random girl were playing and just having fun doing kid stuff. Suddenly I got the urge to tell her “this is a dream, and I can leave whenever I want to. Isn’t that cool?”
She replied with something like “I know.”
So I said “watch this” and in the dream, I closed my eyes and opened them and I was awake (in real life).
Didn’t think much of it.
Come this past June, I was in a town about 4 hours from the one I live in, getting my drivers license photo and all that done since COVID restrictions took them out of my town.
I walked out of the DMV there, and a girl is walking her dog. The dog peed on my moms car door, and she apologized.
We talked for a bit and she asked me for my Snapchat so we could talk some more, which was a first for me since I’m a solid 3/10.
Flash forward a few days later, we’ve been talking, we like each other, decide to hang out in person. She makes the drive up to my town to spend the night.
We spent most of the night just talking about random childhood stories, and I went a grabbed my 3rd grade school picture. Then she told me she had a dream when she was younger about how she was hanging out with a boy, then he said “this is a dream” and left.
She pointed out how younger me looked almost like the kid she had a dream about those years ago.
Well I told her my story of the similar incident, and we concluded we were destined to meet.
I think we both are in agreement that it’s just a scary coincidence, but we both also feel very twilight-zone-y about it now and we aren’t sure if it is a coincidence or some weird fate stuff.
Life is weird, kiddos.
I’ll try to keep this as short as possible, I have ADHD and my stories turn into ramblings most of the time.
Anyways.
When I was about 10 or so, I had this...
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Weird dream could it be a warning please help interpret it ? Thanks!
So i was in france in some strange place looking similar to a city i lived before remiremont
and a highway toll and i passed the toll so afterwards i go down the city near some sign saying neufchateau i never knew the city not even today
and then a beast man very hairy looking a bit like a werewolf only with the head of a man and very hairy and looks for someone and he didnt see me then my mom comes opens the door of the car and tells me to get in and then i quickly get in and ran and the beast couldnt see me
a bit later on i meet with a wonderful woman and we get into her charriot and her father accompanied her , and as soon as we arrive somewhere some sorceress or demon did something and made it so 3 weeks pass and the woman thought i left her and then i say to the demon indominus mortis and curse the demon sorceress… and then 3 images appear before me saying no hugging with this one or sex or love , they were stickman images laying in bed with some words written under, and then i am laying in a bed with other man i didnt knew and i did something to a pole like with my hands i made it a hole and put my controller in it and then i made it complete again and the pole was looking like all poles normal and then i see the charriot i was in and behind it is a castle and village or city on fire and then i say to the demon something like never and the dream ends
So i was in france in some strange place looking similar to a city i lived before remiremont
and a highway toll and i passed the toll so afterwards i go down...
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NSFW Weird Dream
I (F21) had a dream 2 nights ago that I had a dick for a science experiment. I did the helicopter thing and then I started to jack off but then it broke so I had to go back to the lab and they gave me disappointed looks. I went back home and then I woke up when I opened the door.
I (F21) had a dream 2 nights ago that I had a dick for a science experiment. I did the helicopter thing and then I started to jack off but then it broke so I...
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Please analyze my dream. It has been bothering me so much not knowing..
I'm sinking in water and yelling my partner's name as loud as I can but no sound comes out. He doesn't hear me and he's walking away with his mom and they are looking at their phones.
I am 29 Female. ISFJ personality type. As for my ethnicity, I am Caucasian, Cherokee and Mexican.
(We moved in with my mother in law a few months ago and I believe they might be playing PokemonGo on their phones as they are walking away. It's their thing.)
Not sure if it will help but I have chronic anxiety and living here at my mother in law's house has been very difficult for me. I have no privacy, I can't find comfort here at all even in our room with the door shut. Being uncomfortable is a huge trigger to my anxiety. So long story short, I am not happy. I tell my partner often that certain things about living here that make me unhappy but I don't fully explain things in detail.
Why can't I call out? I had no voice besides a very faint squeak when I tried yelling his name. I'm not sure if I ever made it out of the water because I woke up after this. Why was his mom there? Where did this water come from and how did I end up in it? Why was I unable to swim to the dock where they were at?
I have so many questions.. Any insight is greatly appreciated!
I'm sinking in water and yelling my partner's name as loud as I can but no sound comes out. He doesn't hear me and he's walking away with his mom and they are...
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