Dream meanings · 5 old dream books

Dream about a door: what 5 old dream books say

The dream books disagree — China read it as good · Sweden · Greek · India read it as bad
Counted from 19 entries about this symbol · books that give no direction (such as Miller) don't count as a vote

🇨🇳 China · Zhougong Jiemeng

a door suddenly swinging opengood — Great good fortune. (門戶忽開主大吉) · direction from 吉/凶 in the original
a wide-open gategood — Great luck and benefit. (門戶大開大吉利) · direction from 吉/凶 in the original
a door splitting opengood — Great good fortune. (門戶裂開主大吉) · direction from 吉/凶 in the original
a broken, ruined doorbad — An ill event is coming. (門戶破壞有凶事) · direction from 吉/凶 in the original
a door destroyedbad — Great misfortune. (門戶破壞主大凶) · direction from 吉/凶 in the original
the tomb gate opensgood — All matters are auspicious. (塚墓門開百事吉) · direction from 吉/凶 in the original

Source: 周公解夢 · Public domain (Wikisource · {{Pd-old}}) · 8 more in this book

🇮🇳 India · Svapnādhyāya (Purāṇas · Atharvaveda)

a door, a bolted door, a bed or a branch vanishingbad — his wife perishes · direction as read by the translator

Source: Svapnādhyāya — Atharvaveda Pariśiṣṭa 68 · Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa 77/82 (Sanskrit) · Ancient text, public domain · transcription from sa.wikisource (CC BY-SA 4.0)

🇺🇸 Western · Miller (1901)

Door — To dream of entering a door, denotes slander, and enemies from whom you are trying in vain to escape. This is the same of any door, except the door of your childhood home. If it is this door you dream of entering, your days will be filled with plenty and congeniality. To dream of entering a door at night through the rain, denotes, to women, unpardonable escapades; to a man, it is significant of a drawing on his resources by unwarranted vice, and also foretells assignations. To see others go through a doorway, denotes unsuccessful attempts to get your affairs into a paying condition. It also means changes to farmers and the political world. To an author, it foretells that the reading public will reprove his way of stating facts by refusing to read his later works. To dream that you attempt to close a door, and it falls from its hinges, injuring some one, denotes that malignant evil threatens your friend through your unintentionally wrong advice. If you see another attempt to lock a door, and it falls from its hinges, you will have knowledge of some friend's misfortune and be powerless to aid him.
Gate — To dream of seeing or passing through a gate, foretells that alarming tidings will reach you soon of the absent. Business affairs will not be encouraging. To see a closed gate, inability to overcome present difficulties is predicted. To lock one, denotes successful enterprises and well chosen friends. A broken one, signifies failure and discordant surroundings. To be troubled to get through one, or open it, denotes your most engrossing labors will fail to be remunerative or satisfactory. To swing on one, foretells you will engage in idle and dissolute pleasures.

Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted — Gustavus Hindman Miller (1901) · Public domain (Gutenberg)

🇸🇪 Sweden · folk dream book

Gatebad — Arrest or insult. · direction as read by the translator

Source: Den tillförlitligaste Drömboken (svensk drömbok) · Public domain (Gutenberg)

🏛️ Greek · Artemidorus (1881 German ed.)

doors (in a fire dream; start of the passage is cut off)bad — Death of the wife, and the dreamer's life is not safe. · direction as read by the translator

Source: Artemidoros aus Daldis — Symbolik der Träume (German ed., 1881) · Public domain (printed 1881)

How to read this

Each dream book comes from a different culture and century, so the same symbol is often read in opposite ways. This page shows what each book says. It doesn't decide which one is right. Translations were made by AI from the originals, and the original text is kept on every line so you can check it.

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