dream symbol

Entrance / Entryway Dream Meaning

Entrances, as the name suggests, often symbolize entering into a new stage of life. Entryways into one’s home indicate entering more deeply into oneself. Entrances into caves, basements, or some other underground chamber may symbolize entering into the unconscious. Blocked or locked entrances may show difficulties or fears associated with entering. [1]

What Do You Think About This Dream?

Sources and Authors

  1. Dream Symbols in The Dream Encyclopedia by James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver [Back to dream]

What does Entrance / Entryway mean in a dream?


Entrances, as the name suggests, often symbolize entering into a new stage of life. Entryways into one’s home indicate entering more deeply into oneself. Entrances into caves, basements, or some...

Learn more about the meaning of Entrance / Entryway

Dreams of an entrance represents the beginning of a new chapter in your life, starting anew.If you are making an entrance this is about getting attention and wanting others to...

Learn more about the meaning of Entrance

1- An entrance in a dream has the same significance as a door (see Door), representing a new area of experience, or the new experience itself. Such a dream often...

Learn more about the meaning of Enter / Entrance

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...

Learn more about the meaning of Enter, Entrance

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...

Learn more about the meaning of Login

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,...

Learn more about the meaning of Password

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...

Learn more about the meaning of Opening

Example: ‘A ritual began whereby a laige knife was drawn and a few deep cuts were made to both our faces. I put my hands to my face and saw...

Learn more about the meaning of Ceremony, Ritual

A protective and blessed entrance of honor

Learn more about the meaning of Arbor

An humbling, honorable entrance; see “humble”

Learn more about the meaning of Archway

1. Exit;2. Place of welcoming,3. Entrance into house;4. 1st impressions1 Sam. 2:22; Jer. 1:15.

Learn more about the meaning of Foyer

Authoritative power to gain or prevent entrance , possession, or control

Learn more about the meaning of Key

Superior authority to gain or prevent entrance, possession, or control

Learn more about the meaning of Master Key

Unauthorized power to gain or prevent entrance, possession, or control

Learn more about the meaning of Skeleton-key

For many a place of work; otherwise the uncon­scious and its resources; bringing to consciousness one’s po­tential and innate wisdom. Entrance to mine; feelings about the unconscious; vagina.See ore.

Learn more about the meaning of Mines

Being in a vestibule or entrance hall may mean you are beginning - or are being urged - to explore yourself (represented by the house / building).

Learn more about the meaning of Vestibule

Extension of self, making access to outer reality easier. Entrance to your house, or self.If someone else’s driveway, see Road.

Learn more about the meaning of Driveway

Often fear of success or a more generalized fear of failure (particularly when stage fright is part of the dream). “Where do I have to appear?”

Learn more about the meaning of Entrance (as In Performing)

This is a very good dream. Hope of immortality and entrance into Paradise. Cessation of sorrows. Happy and healthy life.

Learn more about the meaning of Paradise

Options under examination (see Buildings, Windows).An invitation to explore aspects of the self from the past, present, or those reaching to the future.Revolving doors: Going in circles and getting nowhere....

Learn more about the meaning of Doors

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...

Learn more about the meaning of Eack-door

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...

Learn more about the meaning of Door Or Entrance

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;

Learn more about the meaning of Door

The solar plexus may symbolize the centre of your psyche, or the entrance to the deepest levels of your mind.

Learn more about the meaning of Solar Plexus

Another form of obstacle dream.If you observed the cavern entrance from outside, you can expect that your circumstances will gradually improve; however, if you were in it (or fell into...

Learn more about the meaning of Cavern

1. Evil;2. Absence of God;3. Trial;4. Time of partying and doing evil deeds; time when evil spirits may gain entrance; Gen. 1:2, 5; 1 Thess. 5:5; John 13:30.

Learn more about the meaning of Night

Initiation is a rite of passage ceremony marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society.An initiation or inauguration ceremony in a spiritual sense can mark a new beginning, the...

Learn more about the meaning of Initiation

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...

Learn more about the meaning of Keyhole

To dream of a synagogue, foretells that you have enemies powerfully barricading your entrance into fortune’s realms.If you climb to the top on the outside, you will overcome oppositions and...

Learn more about the meaning of Synagogue

A place to stop, rest, find security, or take refuge from the elements (or a person or situation that provides such).An entrance, exit, or other transition.A beginning or ending place,...

Learn more about the meaning of Dock

Holes in socks, clothing, furniture, etc. may represent feelings of faultiness or lack. Dark holes can symbolize the great “unknown”, the entrance to the unconscious, or if there are many...

Learn more about the meaning of Hole

Spiritually a single column has the same significance as a tower, a structure to enable us to reach the heavens or the divine. It may be an object of worship...

Learn more about the meaning of Column

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”...

Learn more about the meaning of Swirl Or Eddy

Psychological / emotional perspective: The seven steps or stages up to the entrance into the secret chamber at the top of the ziggurat, leading where union took place, correspond to...

Learn more about the meaning of Ziggurat

The portent of the dream varies according to the aspect of the hall.A long narrow hall predicts a long period of worry; an average normal entrance hall signifies petty vexations;...

Learn more about the meaning of Hall

To dream of sickness, is a sign of trouble and real sickness in your family. Discord is sure to find entrance also.To dream of your own sickness, is a warning...

Learn more about the meaning of Sickness

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...

Learn more about the meaning of Unlocking

The lobby of any structure is the ante-chamber that precedes your entrance into the main room of that building. In this way, it has some symbolic meaning that indicates a...

Learn more about the meaning of Lobby

To see an abbey in ruins, foretells that your hopes and schemes will fall into ignoble incompletion.To dream that a priest bars your entrance into an abbey, denotes that you...

Learn more about the meaning of Abbey

also see Hill1- Traditionally, any mound appearing in a dream is supposed to link back to our very early childhood needs and the comfort that mother’s breast brought.2- Emotionally, man’s...

Learn more about the meaning of Mound

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...

Learn more about the meaning of Knock, Hearing A

Although it has a long life, it is the tree of cemeteries. Its image has to do with death, but also with eternity. It symbolizes the passage of time, death,...

Learn more about the meaning of Cypress

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)...

Learn more about the meaning of Passageway

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...

Learn more about the meaning of Porch

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...

Learn more about the meaning of Gatekeeper

An obstacle to getting what you want in a certain area of your life.Security (physical, emotional, or mental), or a desire for more.A need to focus on personal boundaries (such...

Learn more about the meaning of Lock

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...

Learn more about the meaning of Doormat

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,...

Learn more about the meaning of Knocking

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...

Learn more about the meaning of Gate

Example: ‘I am in a large, airy cave-like room. I am pregnant and wearing a white gown. I am lying on my back on a flat slablike surface with my...

Learn more about the meaning of Cave

Author of The Content Analysis of Dreams and The Meaning of Dreams. Hall’s work with content analysis— which is looking at the personality of the dreamer through a series of...

Learn more about the meaning of Hall, Calvin

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,...

Learn more about the meaning of Valve

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...

Learn more about the meaning of Doorknob

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...

Learn more about the meaning of Revolving Door

Dreams often represent learning as an organic pro­cess. Ideas are taken in, digested, then form pan of an organic whole in an integrated system. Seeing something absorbed in a dream...

Learn more about the meaning of Absorb

To dream of buying liquor, denotes selfish usurpation of property upon which you have no legal claim If you sell it, you will be criticised for niggardly benevolence.To drink some,...

Learn more about the meaning of Liquor

A room in a house or building can represent: A certain aspect of your life you associate with that room (such as a family room representing your family life).A type...

Learn more about the meaning of Room

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...

Learn more about the meaning of Entering

It is a universal symbolic figure that is present in most traditions of the world. We can say that is a combination of all dangerous animals, both real and fantastic....

Learn more about the meaning of Dragon

To dream of handkerchiefs, denotes flirtations and contingent affairs.To lose one, omens a broken engagement through no fault of yours.To see torn ones, foretells that lovers’ quarrels will reach such...

Learn more about the meaning of Handkerchiefs

Cards can appear in dreams in many different forms—such as postcards, maps, entrance cards or tickets, playing cards, and business cards.In the case of playing cards, it implies that you...

Learn more about the meaning of Cards

Insightful intellect that reflects reality.A common allegory for self-observation. We are looking into a mirror in our dreams in order to confirm our identity. If, in a dream, we are...

Learn more about the meaning of Mirror

Example: ‘I know I have killed somebody and their body is walled up in the cellar.The strange thing is I haven’t a clue who this person is. Various people visit...

Learn more about the meaning of Basement, Cellar

Example: ‘I went into a cellar. It was rather cavelike. I had to scramble to get into it.The entrance was difficult to find, but I had discovered it many years...

Learn more about the meaning of Find, Found

Did you dream of someone, perhaps a stranger, or someone you know who behaved in a repulsive, hateful or shocking way and your instinctual response was one of loathing? If...

Learn more about the meaning of The Shadow

lucky numbers: 01-06-07-08-40-49answering all questions correctly on an: need self-assurance to resolve job confusion. not: your boss needs to know your version of the truth. can’t finish the: are self-control...

Learn more about the meaning of Examination

Dreams give us a doorway into a strange and wonderful world. Although it appears to have many of the features of our waking world, such as peo­ple, animals, objects and...

Learn more about the meaning of Adventure Of The Dreamworld

A vagina in a dream signifies relief for someone who is experiencing hardship, pressure, or sorrow. It also could mean satisfaction of one’s needs, fulfillment of one’s desire, marriage, partnership,...

Learn more about the meaning of Vagina

To dream of a donkey braying in your face, denotes that you are about to be publicly insulted by a lewd and unscrupulous person.To hear the distant braying filling space...

Learn more about the meaning of Donkey

Jung himself apparently went through a difficult separation from his mother in early childhood that had repercussions for his social health later in life. Jung’s mother was said to have...

Learn more about the meaning of Jung’s First Dream

(arb. God’s House, Mosque, Place of worship) In Arabic, the word masjid means a place of prostration, while the word Jami means a place of gathering.A masjid or a mosque...

Learn more about the meaning of Masjid

The male within the female, shown as a man in a woman’s dreams. Physically a woman is predominantly fe­male, but also has a clitoris and produces some male hor­mones. Psychologically,...

Learn more about the meaning of Animus

A to Z Dream Interpretation