Original: The Doors took their name from the title of Aldous Huxley 's The Doors of Perception ( a reference to the '' unlocking '' of '' doors of perception '' through psychedelic drug use ) , Huxley 's own title was a quotation from William Blake 's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell , in which Blake wrote that '' If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is , infinite . ''
Simplified: The name was a reference of the Aldous Huxley book The Doors of Perception whose name came from a verse of the famous poet William Blake ; '' If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is , infinite . '' )