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Opening A Closed Or Locked Door Dream Meaning

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. [1]

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  1. Islamic Dream Interpretation by Ibn Seerin [Back to dream]

What does Opening a Closed or Locked Door mean in a dream?


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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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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Doors most often represent openings into new opportunities that may fulfill your desires.A closed door may suggest that you feel locked out emotionally. Being unable to open a door in...

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Symbol: A door, a portal, or a gate—all three are always a symbol of transformation, a threshold between two places.Vision: Stepping through a door: a matter is resolving itself without...

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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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The meaning of a locked door or locked window depends on which side you were on in the dream.If you were locked in, you may expect a change of location...

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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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Closing something (such as a door or a suitcase) can represent: The end of a process, phase, opportunity, etc.A decision or wish to end something.The end of a discussion or...

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Something that’s closed or sealed (such as a door or a box) can represent: An obstacle or challenge to moving forward somehow in your life.Perceived inaccessibility or unavailability.A feeling that...

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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...

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If you dreamed of opening a cupboard door to find that it opened into an empty room or a room you hadn’t seen before, your dreaming mind is telling you...

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In dream-lore, to pass through a door and enter a house is a decisive and symbolic action as the door represents the passage from one state of being to another....

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(see also Door)(1) Freud says a gate may symbolize the vagina; opening the gate, male penetration of the vagina.(2) A locked gate (a recurring image in Freud’s dreams) may symbolize...

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An open gate signifies opportunities ahead.A closed gate indicates obstacles which can be overcome if you succeeded in opening it.A locked gate predicts insurmountable obstacles, unless you climbed over it...

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Material aspects: To recognize in a dream that a part of our body has become locked suggests that we are carrying extreme tension. We need to release that tension in...

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This is a form of our old friend the obstacle dream, and of course all the contributing (if any) factors should be correlated, but as a general guide:An open gate...

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To dream about a closed drawer means that you will have to outwit an unsuspected rival for something you want.An open drawer signifies a new opportunity - and if the...

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A closed drawer means that you will have to outmaneuver an unsuspected rival for something you want An open drawer signifies a new opportunity, and if the drawer is full...

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Spiritually to be close to someone is to have empathy with them.A closed door suggests that an opportunity has passed.

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To see, or move through, a turnstile in your dream symbolizes new opportunities that are opening before you. You may be entering into a new stage in your life, or...

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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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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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Emotional nature closed down, energies locked up; immobilization.See Ice.

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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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1. Hoping for good news.2. If box contains mail and the door or flap is open, it indicates good news.3. If door is closed, bad news.

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Opening to love is the message delivered from this pink quartz crystal. Rose quartz might also be offered as a tool for healing the wounded hean or for opening the...

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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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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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If locked or closed, need for verbalization; release suppressed emotions. Sternness, strength.If jaws are crushing you, suggests fear of words, giving away power to others; losing control, being taken in...

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Anything closed, such as a window, door, gate, fence, wall, etc., constitutes an obstacle dream, and its significance will follow on how you dealt with it.

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An attitude, thought or feeling opening up areas of memory, experience or motivation previously locked up”; realisation or information allowing solution to a problem, de­picts an effective way of doing...

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1. Devourer; small issues that devour and defile your food supply!2. Plague;3. Opening a door to sin; Malachi 3:11.

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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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Packing, closing, or opening a trunk means the dreamer would like a change.If the trunk never gets packed or never gets locked, the dream signifies frustration usually because of thwarted...

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Looking through a window represents insight and attitude towards life. What you see out the window - whether it’s a positive or negative view - suggests how optimistic or pessimistic...

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Vision: Dreaming about being blind: start opening your eyes; you are turning a blind eye to a certain matter! With eyes closed you are running headlong into danger. Leading a...

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Release of sexual feelings; other people’s sexual attitudes, or their negative sexual attitudes; the flow of life through us. Dreams in which we try to go to the toilet but...

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Capped bottle means closed or locked up inside, but can easily break through to new awareness. Old empty bottle is discarded part of self you do not need anymore.If you...

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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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To dream that you are in a garage indicates a time of rest and relaxation in your life. You could feel that you are spinning your wheels or that there...

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Self-created prison; fear of being trapped by your own limitations. Fear of self-expression. Cage door is never locked; you are free to leave through the doorway to freedom, your own...

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Material aspects: From a mundane perspective if we are to live life as fully as we can, we need to understand our own tower. In dreams it may appear initially...

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1. Need or ability to “turn things around” by making the correct move or opening the right door.2. Need for control or moving ahead with problems or ideas.3. Mystery and/or...

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Dreams of a zipper represent that you are opening and closing yourself to intimacy. Perhaps you are feeling tentative about revealing your secrets and/or exposing your true feelings. Consider if...

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Dreams of a hinge represent that you have a decision to make that hinges upon a particular issue. Pay attention to the signs that come to you in your waking...

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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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(see Herbs, Oak)Invincibility. Teutonic warriors carried mistletoe into battle as protective amulets.Setting aside bad feelings out of respect for a common belief or need. In Scandinavian regions, warring groups who...

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In these extremely common dreams, you are lost and feeling desperate. You may be buried alive or locked in a cage. Or you dream of not being able to move;...

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Vision+ Depth Psychology: Listening or eavesdropping behind a closed door: don’t be so nosy—you are only harming yourself. Instead, listen to yourself and what you think.

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A closed clam may state that you are shut tight as a clam and are cold emotionally. Eating steamed clams may be a response to an opening in a recent...

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Closeness (as in a tight-knit family).Security or unavailability (as in being “locked up tight”).Neatness or tidiness.Something that is too tight can represent feeling restricted or blocked somehow in your life.Someone...

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Results from pushing in the wrong direction or in the wrong way, one not in your best interest.A door is closed only for you to explore a better one. There...

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A sort of dream of contrary in that if you received one in your dream, it predicts some minor romantic troubles or disappointment in a friend; whereas if you sent...

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A refrigerator can represent a nurturing of the spirit as well as sustenance for the body. Opening the refrigerator door and standing there looking in and seeing the refrigerator amply...

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(Open) To unlock a closed or a sealed door, or to open a sealed container, or a location in a dream means easing of one’s difficulties, and it could represent...

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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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