Deck
To dream of a deck represents your enjoyment of success. Freely using power or doing whatever you want. Feeling good noticing things you want happening easily.
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Decorating
To dream of decorating a house represents feelings of making a situation special.
Negatively, decorating a house may reflect an arrogant or inconsiderate attitude about every single decision you make needing to feel good being permanent. Needing all decisions to feel good being perfect and in your favor. Decision-making the revolves around yourself being special. Selfishly believing that everything in your life should feel good being easy. Wasting time making something feel special. Attempting to mask or cover your real feelings because you don't want to address the real matter at hand.
To dream of lacking decorations may reflect feelings about a situation having nothing special about it. A situations that lacks enthusiasm for people's feelings. A bland or empty feeling relationship.
To dream of Christmas decorating represents a wish to encourage mutual sharing, forgiveness, or enjoyment. Making a effort to make a relationship feel good. Making an effort to make other people feel deserving of something that want. Enthusiasm for other people's feelings. Trying hard to encourage good-spiritedness. Special efforts made to encourage overlooking past problems.
Negatively, Christmas decorations in a dream may reflect wasting time trying to repair failed relationship with nice gestures. Being nice to people who are not being nice to you in hopes to fix a problem. Naively believing that being nice, supportive, or forgiving will fix a serious problem.
To dream of decorating a gravestone represents feelings about trying to feel better about something that doesn't matter anymore. Trying to feel better about a lose. Alternatively, it may reflect an attempt to cheer yourself up about the loss of a loved one.
Example: A man dreamed of decorating a gravestone. In waking life he was unhappy with his job and tried to make his remaining time around his coworkers feel as special as he could while he searched for another job.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of seeing the inside of a building with no decorations. In waking life she was renting a room in her house to her son and didn't like treating him special.
Example 3: A woman dreamed of putting up Christmas decorations. In waking life she was trying really hard to be nice to her ex-boyfriend to try to repair their failed relationship.
Demolition
To dream of a demolition represents a major change that you are undergoing. A final end to a situation or relationship. It may also reflect plans you have made to end something that are finally happening. Canceling out every single thing.
Negatively, you may feel out of control or unable to stop a big loss.
Dining Room
To dream of being in a dining room represents situations where you feel everything works out normal as long as you aren't embarrassing anyone else. Feelings about everything in a situation is sane as long as you don't make someone else angry or jealous. Feeling that people always need to help you out. People or situations in your life that are doing what they are supposed to be doing. It may reflect a sense of rationality or civility after a period of disorder. A sense that other people are experiencing exactly the same situations or issues that you are.
Negatively, dreaming about a dining room may reflect feelings about being able to use people or get away with dishonesty as long as you don't push limits. Getting away with something as long as you don't embarrass other people. Using people as family life to get something for yourself because they will always help you out. Rationality or civility that you can safely use for dishonesty.
Alternatively, a dining room represents the finality of a situation. Events or experiences that signify an ending of some kind in your life.
Example: A man dreamed of being in a dining room. In waking life he was carrying on multiple sexual relationships. The dining room symbolism may have reflected his feelings about getting away with one particular sexual relationship as a long as he didn't embarrass the second woman by talking to her about it directly. He was also unemployed so the dining room symbolism may have pointed to using one woman for support while unemployed and cheating.
Example 2: A teenage girl dreamed of worrying as she walked in and out of a dining room. In waking life she was having concerns about having the energy to finish school with so much else to do. Worrying as she walked in and out of the dining room may have reflected her concerns about doing well in school with a routine being difficult to maintain with other responsibilities distracting her.
Dining Table
To dream of a dining table represents situations in waking life that are unencumbered. An experience that can't be stopped or interrupted. Noticing yourself being totally confident about something or having total control over a situation. Not having to do anything you don't like.
Doghouse
To dream of a doghouse represents feelings that certain behavior or relationships can be used to your benefit whenever you want them to. Emotionally protective resources that are waiting for you to request them. Feeling that someone will protect you whenever you ask them to.
Alternatively, a doghouse may be a sign that you feel punished for your actions. Feeling that you might be in trouble if you act out of line. Feeling that it's important to do what you are told to maintain safety in a situation or relationship. Feeling that you or someone else is not as important or attractive as another in a relationship.
Negatively, a doghouse reflects an arrogant mindset about believing you can tell someone else what to do whenever you want. An arrogant mindset about using someone for sex whenever you want. Feeling that you can showoff whenever you want. Feeling that you don't have to respect someone that you can use to your benefit.
Example: A young man dreamed of mowing a lawn and then reaching into a doghouse to get something when 6 rattlesnakes clung to his arm. In waking life he was assuming it would be easy to have sex with his new girlfriend anytime he wanted when she scared him that if he doesn't slowdown with his attempts to have sex with her she would end the relationship.
Dollhouse
To see or play with a dollhouse in your dream suggests that you are idealizing a situation in your life. An area of your life where you believe that everything needs to be perfect or problem-free. A perfect and idealized view of home life or idealized view of your own personality. Negatively, you may be in denial about your problems or have problems asserting control.
Alternatively, a dollhouse in a dream may reflect a way to solve and work out waking problems that you want to see perfect. Relationship or social practice.
Door
To dream of a door represents access, new opportunities, and changes. It may also reflect an available option. A chance to do something different. A door can also symbolize a transition from one stage of your life to another. Consider the colors, numbers, images, and feelings associated with the door for further meaning. Initiating.
To dream of an open door represents new opportunities or options ready or waiting for you. It may also reflect a new opportunity or change that has already been initiated. Noticing yourself doing something different in your life. Your own receptiveness to new ideas or new situations.
To dream of a closed door may represent opportunities or changes that are no longer available to you. Alternatively, a closed door may reflect a choice you need to make or initiative you need to take in order to start an opportunity. The prospect for change that is up to you to decide.
To dream of seeing a door open and then close immediately after may reflect feelings about an opportunity appearing to avail itself and then close off. Negatively, it may reflect your perception of a problem starting and then disappearing on its own. Excessive sensitivity about a problem getting worse. Noticing a problem potentially getting worse, going away, and then never addressing it while choosing to overlook it instead.
To dream of a locked door represents opportunities, change, or access to something in your life that you feel cut off from. Feeling denied or that your progress in life is somehow blocked. Alternatively, a locked door may reflect your own unwillingness to open up to others or possible anti-social behavior. Closing yourself off from others or being unwilling to reveal things to others about yourself.
To dream of opening the wrong door represents feelings about having accidentally accessed the options or opportunities that you don't desire. Feelings of having accidentally opened yourself up to problems you don't want to deal with. Opening the wrong door may also reflect feelings about having accidentally initiated social contact with people you don't like. Accidentally letting people you don't like think you like them or need them again.
To dream of a door being slammed in your face represents feelings of being "shut out" or ignored.
To dream of people wanting you to let them in a door or who you welcome in a door represents ideas, habits, or life situations that are pressuring you to do something different. A part of you that wants to be acknowledged or a bad habit that is difficult to resist.
If criminals or people you don't like come to a door it represents negative thinking, bad habits, or fear that is presenting itself in your life. It may also be a sign that you are too close to negative influences.
Being locked outside of the door to your house represents negative influences or problems that overcome your ability to feel safe, normal, or stable. You feel you can't get back to normal.
To dream of a door that can't close symbolizes a change that feels irreversible.
To dream of walking out a door you can't go back into represents feelings about situations you've progressed through and can't return to. Access or opportunities you can't revert to.
To dream of a white door represents access, new opportunities, changes, an available option, or a chance to do something different that leads to perfect honesty, purification, or a need to be genuine. A new phase in life where honesty and integrity are key aspects. Your own honest intentions to change or a chance to renew something in your own life. An opportunity for a fresh start in your life. Feelings of being pressured into taking a positive path you aren't ready for, or being overwhelmed by the expectation of maintaining purity or perfection in a new phase of life. Anxiety about facing a new beginning that requires you to let go of past mistakes or unhealthy habits. Feelings about an opportunity that is more honest or purifying than you like.
To dream of a broken door represents feelings of vulnerability or insecurity about access, new opportunities, changes, an available option, or a chance to do something different that can't be stopped or controlled. The potential for unwanted influences to enter your life.
To dream of smashing through a door represents forcefully overcoming barriers or obstacles that have been preventing you from moving forward. A determination to access new opportunities or to confront challenges head-on. A breakthrough in your personal or professional life, where you are able to move past limitations and achieve your goals.
Example: A woman dreamed of trying to open a locked door. In waking life, she was having trouble communicating with her daughter.
Example 2: A man dreamed of a door that was broken. In waking life, he took a hallucinogenic and permanently remained in a hallucinogenic state for the rest of his life. In this case, the broken door may have reflected his feelings about the irreversible change in his perception and mental state after taking the hallucinogenic. The door, once a passage to new experiences or states of mind, now represented a barrier that was permanently open, leaving him continuously exposed to altered reality without the ability to return to his previous normal state.
Example 3: A woman dreamed of seeing a door open and then immediately close. In waking life, she had gotten into a fight with her boyfriend and based on her behavior she felt he was close to breaking up with her. This feeling went away the next day. The opening and closing door may have reflected her feelings about her life opening the unwanted opportunity to break up and then feeling it end as the day passed.
Example 4: A man dreamed of walking out a door and then being unable to walk back into the door. In waking life, he was confronting legal problems with difficult people with whom he reached a point where he could no longer speak to them rationally to solve the problem.
Example 5: A woman dreamed of walking through a door, closing the door, and then hearing a man banging on the door. In waking life, she had decided to divorce her husband and was having complications completing the divorce. In this case, the door that is walked through and closed with a man banging on it may reflect the "door of divorce." The woman's annoyance with hearing a man banging on the closed door may have reflected her feelings about the divorce being "closed issue" while her husband didn't agree.
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Door Frame
To dream of a door frame represents thoughts about awareness of potential thresholds, transitions, and possibilities. A threshold between one's current situation and a new realm or phase. Feelings about the boundaries you perceive with experiencing accessibility, new opportunity, or change. The boundaries between different states of being or experiences.
Positively, dreaming about a door frame may represent readiness or openness to embrace a new chapter or a change in your life. It can suggest that you're in a transitional phase and are mentally or emotionally prepared for what lies beyond the door. It might indicate a sense of anticipation, standing at the precipice of a new adventure, or new opportunities. A call to embrace change, to trust in the unknown, and to move forward with courage and curiosity, leaving behind any reservations or fears.
Negatively, a door frame without a door might indicate feelings of vulnerability, exposure, or insecurity. It can suggest a barrier or limitation in transitioning to a desired state or experience. Perhaps you feel an opportunity is present but something is missing or preventing full access. Alternatively, it could symbolize hesitation, indicating that while you're close to making a change, you haven't fully committed or taken the step.
To dream of a standalone frame without a solid door may represent an unobstructed passage or an open invitation to new experiences, adventures, or phases of life. A situation that whispers of potential, urging the dreamer to step forward without hesitation and embrace what lies ahead.
Example: A woman dreamed of seeing an open door and then suddenly a man was standing against the doorframe. In waking life, she began talking to a man with whom she had a romantic interest and hadn't talked to in a while. In this case, the man standing in the door frame may have reflected the dreamer's awareness of a threshold in her personal life. The open door represented an opportunity for renewed connection and a potential romantic relationship with the man.
Doorbell
To dream of hearing a doorbell represents unexpected news or unexpected waking life situations. An area of your life that is calling your attention or waiting to be explored. Issues that you weren't prepared to deal with. Whoever, or whatever is outside the door is symbolic for this unexpected event, or change.
To dream of ringing a doorbell represents your attempt to draw attention to yourself or some issue. You may be surprising someone else with something they weren't expecting.
Doormat
To dream of a doormat represents a lack of appreciation. An aspect of your personality that is used for the benefit of someone else.
Positively, it may point to habits or resources used to rid oneself of problems. Negatively, a doormat may reflect you or someone else that is taking advantage of others. It may be a sign that you feel "walked all over" or that you aren't appreciating what you have.
Consider any words on the door mat for additional meanings.
To dream of a dog poop on a doormat represents a worn out welcome or an abuse of someone else's good nature. You or someone else may have gone too far using someone.
Example: A woman dreamed of seeing dog poop on a doormat. In waking life she stopped being friends with someone she thought was using her. The dog poop reflected her feeling that she may have gone too far in telling her friend that she felt used.
Drain
To dream of a drain represents your ability to let go or release something for good. How well you can let go of people, beliefs, emotions, or situations. Consider the condition and appearance of the drain for additional symbolism. Problems that you feel can be slowly tapered down, released, or relieved.
Negatively, drains may reflect feelings of losing grip on a situation. Feeling forced to let go of a situation, control, or a relationship when you don't want to. An area of your life that you feel is "going down the drain."
To dream of a drain that is blocked represents a difficulty letting go for good. You may not like letting go of something or don't like believing you have to. Beliefs or relationships that are too hard to let go of. Alternatively, it may represent some wasted effort or embarrassing loss.
To dream of draining a sink represents feelings about letting go of something for good. A backup problem is slowly being resolving or going away. It may also reflect the end of a cleansing stage of your life. Easy progress. Confidence in watching a problem or difficult moment improve on it's own. Feeling that it's easy to move on from a situation.
To dream of draining a person or device of power may reflect feelings about trying to exhaust something of energy. Feelings about yourself becoming exhausted in some manner. Observing yourself or someone else becoming exhausted and not doing anything to stop it.
Example: A man dreamed of seeing bubblegum stuck in a drain that he was trying to remove. In waking life he was having difficulty getting over a girl he liked. He couldn't let go of his desire for her because he enjoyed thinking about her too much.
Example 2: A young man dreamed of seeing water on the floor drain into a hole in the wall and go into the basement. In waking life he had was webmaster who was confronting a jealous competitor who was trying to spam his website with negative promotions so the Google search engine would deindex him. He configured a disavow file to list all the negative web domains the competing webmaster used against him so Google would help him to ignore the spamming with ease.
Drugstore
To dream of a drugstore represents situations that require discretion, privacy, or confidentiality. Your thoughts on the ease or difficulty of obtaining the resources you need to help yourself.
Positively, dreaming of a drugstore may represent your responsible handling of a delicate matter. It may highlight your maturity in respecting confidentiality, or it could indicate a proactive approach to seeking solutions for problems that are private or sensitive in nature. An ability to easily access the resources or solutions that you need for personal problems without anyone else finding out about it.
Negatively, dreaming of a drugstore might imply that you are grappling with issues that you feel forced to keep private or confidential. You may feel a risk of embarrassment with accessing resources while trying to address a problem. You may feel very sensitive about noticing or dealing with a personal problem.
Alternatively, you may be experiencing concerns over your health.
Example: A man dreamed of standing in front of a drugstore. In waking life, his mother had killed herself. In this case, the drugstore may have reflected his wish for discretion with the issue because the subject of suicide felt shameful.
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Eiffel Tower
To dream of the Eiffel Tower represents feelings about a perspective on life that has the qualities of sophistication, achievement and ambition while you are in love with your life where everything works out. Personal triumph and integrity. Feelings about respecting yourself answering to nobody else with everything in your life working out beautifully just as you envisaged. The ability to meet your goals or aspirations in a way that surpasses your own expectations and earns the admiration of others. A stage of your life where everything seems to be falling into place that allows you to respect yourself and feel independent. Dignity and integrity on display to others that is beyond reproach. Feelings about goals or aspirations working out exactly as you said they worked out beautifully and that other people can see. Living with the rewards of having been right all along when others didn't believe in you or help you. Excellence in your life that you are not vain about. A sense of excellence in your life that you are not arrogant about but quietly confident in. The rewards of your perseverance and resilience, of having been right all along when others didn't believe in you or help you.
Negatively, the Eiffel Tower may reflect situations that lofty aspirations for success and recognition. The fear of failing to meet high expectations or the anxiety of living up to an ideal that seems nearly impossible to reach. Feelings about the gap between your current state and your high aspirations.
Example: A man dreamed of seeing the Eiffel tower. In waking life, he was enjoying experiencing his new business allowing him to change his life to a more honest life when it finally started to make money. In this case, the Eiffel Tower may have reflected his feelings of accomplishment and prestige as his business began to flourish. The Eiffel Tower symbolized his sense of personal triumph and integrity, as he was able to successfully transition into a more honest lifestyle while demonstrating to others that he could make his aspirations come true.
Example 2: A teenage girl dreamed of speaking to famous people while seeing the Eiffel Tower outside a window. She was conflicted between suicidal thoughts and aspiring to be famous in her future. In this case, the Eiffel Tower may have have reflected her deeply held aspirations, the lofty heights of success and recognition she desired to achieve, which stood in stark contrast to her current feelings of despair and thoughts of self-harm. The Eiffel Tower, an icon of human achievement and ambition, symbolized the potential she saw in herself, and the future she could envision beyond her present struggles. Thus, it represented the pull of her dreams, serving as a beacon of hope amidst her emotional turmoil.
Electrical Outlet
To dream of an electrical outlet represents feelings about the ability to easily obtain access to feelings of power. Negatively, an electrical outlet may reflect obsession with convenience or abusing something that is easy. Naive beliefs that having something or being with someone will fix your whole life.
Alternatively, a electrical plug may reflect sexual dependency. Needing sex, pornography, or to be plugged "inside a woman" to feel powerful or loved. Feeling that life will be easy or perfect if you have sex with someone.