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Door Or Entrance Dream Meaning

A door, gate, portal, or other entrance or exit can represent a passage or transition from one area of space or time to another, such as: A new beginning, or a transition from one phase to another in your life.

Access to a different reality such as “the other side” or “another world.” A dream cue that indicates the dream story shifting from one setting or time frame to the next.

A door inside a house might represent a connection between two aspects of your life.

A house’s front door might represent a transition from your public life to your personal life.

Not being able to open a door can represent feeling stuck or unempowered, or a belief that you’re being held back (by a circumstance, a person, God, etc.).

A door that provides access (such as on a refrigerator or a safe) could represent the idea of access or permission to access something (an area, person, certain information, money, etc.).

A revolving door can represent a speedy or smooth transition, an obstacle or delay (if you got stuck), “going in circles” or being stuck in a pattern (if you went around and around).

See also: Passageway, Opening, Gatekeeper, Room, Entering, Lock, Faucet, Valve, Knocking, Knock, Hearing a, Password [1]

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Sources and Authors

  1. The Curious Dreamer’s Dream Dictionary by Nancy Wagaman [Back to dream]

What does Door or Entrance mean in a dream?


1. Opportunity;2. Entrance;3. Faith;4. Transition.5. Witnessing if going door to door;6. Squeaky door needing the anointing;1 Sam. 15:27-28; Hos. 3:1; Jer. 18:6;

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Material aspects: An entrance in a dream has the same significance as a door, representing a new area of experience, or the new experience itself. Such a dream often signifies...

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A door, gate, portal, or other entrance or exit can represent a passage or transition from one area of space or time to another, such as: A new beginning, or...

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Security.A point of access or entrance (such as a door or starting point).A test or verification of someone’s identity.A question of authenticity or honesty.A test for whether a person should...

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To dream that you are making use of the Back-door instead of the front entrance of your house is a warning of some coming change in your fortunes. This may...

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New experience or new area of experience. Secret entrance: an attitude or psychological stance’ which opens a new experience of self, or allows access to parts of oneself usually inaccessible.See...

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A passage from one phase to another in your life.A new beginning, change, or momentum in your life.Efficient flow (of a crowd, a process, your work, etc.).The idea of being...

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Opening something (such as a door or box) can represent: Curiosity.A desire for understanding or information.A search for something (an object, person, opportunity, etc.).Beginning something, or a desire to do...

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Access or entrance.A mystery or a secret code.Protection or security.A weakness or point of vulnerability.A test for whether a person is allowed into a group, restricted area, area of knowledge,...

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Taking action, or an intention to act.Searching.Beginning a process.Feeling open to opportunity or progress.Consider the doorknob’s context and your feelings about whatever was on the other side of the door.Grabbing...

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A knock on your door (or your doorbell ringing) can represent actual, desired, or feared: The idea of someone wanting to communicate with you.Someone trying to get access to you...

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Knocking on a door or ringing a doorbell can represent (real or imagined): Attempting to gain admission or surpass a barrier (such as to attain a new experience, certain knowledge,...

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A threshold, like that between conscious self aware­ness and our total experience. Such a gate needs to open and close—open to allow selected memory, close to prevent mas­sive flooding of...

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Vision: Seeing a locked door: poor conduct needs to be replaced with positive actions—it is the only way to avoid standing in front of a locked door in the fiiture....

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Using the back door instead of the front door in your dream is an indication that some important changes are on the way for you.If it was friends who used...

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Doors often refer to the openings of the body and, therefore, by default, one’s sexuality.The front door and back door signifies the vagina and the anus respectively. Breaking down such...

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A puzzle, riddle, or something else you’d like to “unlock.” Imagining or wanting to access something forbidden or not allowed.A boundary, or an obstacle that denies access.Peeking through a keyhole...

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(Door) Knocking on one’s door in a dream means a fight waged by an intruder.(Also see Close, Door)

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A swirl, eddy, whirlpool, or vortex can represent: A disturbance.A variation from the usual.A force of nature that poses a real or imagined threat.Something or someone that “sucks you into”...

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Doors may have a variety of different meanings—meanings that can usually be ascertained depending on how the door is disposed in a dream. An open door indicates a new opportunity;...

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Entering an area or structure (such as walking through a door) can represent: A transition from one space or time to another.Change.A new beginning, phase, project, or mode.Making an agreement.Entering...

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Access or permission.Authority, or giving someone authority.Acceptance.Openness.Allowing yourself to become more vulnerable with others.An issue involving personal boundaries.Solving a problem, mystery, or something puzzling.Secretly unlocking something that belongs to someone...

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A door knocker in a dream represents the door attendant, the announcer, a messenger, a warning guard, a security system or a guard dog. Ifthe knocker is made ofgold or...

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If you dream of falling through a trap door, your opponents will outwit you.If you avoid it, you will not be tricked by your enemies.If you use a trap door...

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Dreams of a door mat represent that you’ve been allowing people to walk all over you. You are afraid of saying “No” for fear that you will not be loved....

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A lock secures a door and thus may represent your concerns about safety and security A door that won’t lock may indicate that you are too open and that you...

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(Doorjamb) In a dream, a doorjamb or a door post represent the sire of the house or his bottler.If the door post is removed in a dream, it means dismissal...

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A passageway or hallway can represent: A transition from one phase to another in your life.A change or new beginning.A connection from one dream area (or one point in time)...

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(Shut) If a single man sees himself shutting a door in a dream, it means that he will marry a righteous woman.If a married man sees himself shutting a door...

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A driveway can represent: An actual access route.A symbolic access route or a means of approaching a person, place, situation, or something else.The degree of accessibility of something (for example,...

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A public or social aspect of your life.Your personal boundary, or the boundary between your personal life (represented by the house) and your public life (represented by the outside world).See...

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Permission.An authority figure who gives or denies permission.Someone or something that determines what you can and can’t do (such as a person, organization, government, rules or laws, or your own...

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Permission or access.Power or authority.The (real or imagined) answer to a problem, puzzle, or something else you’d like to “unlock.” Your personal set of keys (such as car and house...

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The threshold of something new (real or imagined).Preparing for a transition or change.Your feelings (optimism, dread, etc.) about a certain aspect of your life or about what’s coming next in...

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The idea that something is missing or something has been lost.A flaw, irregularity, or the idea that something is not quite right.An opening or opportunity for something to pass from...

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That particular door is an entrapment, i.E.A tempting opportunity or invitation to do wrong

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1. Asserting ideas or desires.2. Reaching for help from someone behind the door.3. Female sexual symbol.

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An exceptionally desirable reward will be behind that “door of opportunity”

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Permission, or control of a boundary (since a valve is what allows or disallows fluid to pass through).Regulation of a flow (such as of emotions or a process).Control of flow,...

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1. Access; (Veil is open);2. If a door and window is open it speaks of an Opportunity;3. Door open in heaven speaks of the “Rapture” 1 Cor. 16:9; Rev 4;2;...

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(Ring, Bond, Door knocker) In a dream, a link represents the religion of Islam. Holding to the like of a chain in a dream means steadfastness in one’s religion. In...

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(Doorjamb, Door latch) A door latch or a doorjamb in a dream represents a door attendant, a guard dog or a servant.

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To dream that you are in a garage, represents a period of boredom in your life. You may feel that you have no direction or guidance toward achieving your goals.If...

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In a dream, squeaking of the door means an evil caused by a guard, or a fight between husband and wife, or it could mean divulging a secret.(Also see Screeching...

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If the house whose door is being opened is known to him it means he will marry.If not, it means his Dua’s will be granted.

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To dream you hear or ring a door bell, foretells unexpected tidings, or a hasty summons to business, or the bedtide of a sick relative.

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1. Spiritual change.2. New prospects.3. Moving from one level of understanding to another.4. Fortune or wealth is at hand.5. View of society (door opening out).6. View of inner self (door...

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If a person sees himself closing the door of his house it means he will divorce his wife.

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Vision: The bolt on a door cautions vou not to reveal the secrets of other people—the result would be nothing but trouble and frustration. Locking a door with a bolt:...

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Dreams of a knob denote that you have access to opportunity because of your will and desire, as in the fact that you can be led to the right door,...

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A padlock in a dream represents an employee who is treated roughly and unfavorably.A padlock made from wood in a dream represents deceit and hypocrisy. Lockingone’s door securely in a...

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Mats, anywhere except in front of a door, are held to signify obstacles of a size in ratio to the size of the mat; in front of a door, they...

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(see Buildings, Castle)Compartmentalization. Each door here represents a different aspect of self and your experiences.Alternatives. Every door is another option waiting for examination.Being lost in an apartment complex symbolizes having...

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A displaced door is a hint that the head of the household will die.

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A door seen falling indicates that the beholder will first become ill then regain his health.

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