doors of perception
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Those who have gotten their doors of perception open wide enough often enough know that this statement of Blake's is not mere poetic exaggeration."
- "“The doors of perception have opened all at once! We must close them!” “Hey, there's quadrillions of them!” “Maybe millions!” “What are you -- Quadrillions is a larger number.” “Quadrillions is a fake number.” “No, it's not! It's a thousand billion.” “Really? Look, are you just trying to make me look like a douche in front of the new guy?”"
- "We go about our lives perceiving one reality, while an infinite number of alternate realities exist just outside our doors of perception."
- "Helplessly hoping to open doors of perception To the mysteries and the quandaries of mankind; The secrets of the universe are all we wish to find."
- "In my opinion, Myron's epilepsy is of a particular sort, something known as SLPE [schizophrenia-like psychosis of epilepsy], a form of spilepsy in which the Pleroma is only a stone's throw away and the doors of perception are wide open."
- "He could not take seriously these chaps in ties and suits or tweeds who wore brogues and cardigans when at home all day, who belonged to the Garrick and the Athenaeum, who lived in solid north London villas or Costwold mansions, who spoke loftily, as one might after a lifetime pontificating from All Souls, Oxford; who had never risked a peep round the doors of perception by taking a drug other than tobacco or alcohol, which they peevishly refused to accept were psychoactive addictive sustances;"