Doors

Doors have an aesthetic property which creates the impression of what lies beyond them.
Symbolically doors are endowed with a ritual purpose, being granted access through a door can have a special significance. They usually signify the portent of change.

Doors appear quite frequently in dreams, for example a door opening in a dream represent a desire for inner exploration and self discovery or a new desire to open up your feelings. A poem which i recently studied was called Kubla Khan by Sam Taylor Coleridge. The poem was about a dream he had experienced under the influence of opium where he discovers a land and describes whats in the land and the evil within its chasms. The relation to this and a dream is that his dream was disturbed by a knock on the door which woke him up so he could never finish his dream. This poem relates to my project on 'The open door' because he explores a dark, mysterious, savage and holy place which links to religion (religion seems to be creeping up a lot in this project). The enchanted land also refers to almost a fairytale like land the chasm being symbolic of the dark side of the soul.

From what i can gather from my research, there is a link between doors and the supernatural, or a higher being. Doors represent a communication. Also Greek theatre was always closely related to religion, and religion has a connection with doors.