Dead Doormat in dreams
A mat at the threshold — what you wipe off before bringing the outside into your inside.
How dead changes the reading
Dead in the dream means the symbol's energy is no longer in active circulation in your life. The reading is not necessarily grim — most often it is the dream noting that something you had been carrying has run its full course and you can stop carrying it.
The base reading of Doormat
A doormat in a dream is the dream's image of the small ritual at the threshold — what you choose to wipe off yourself before you go indoors. The dream brings the mat when the question of what gets to come into your private space with you is alive. A clean doormat used with intent is the dream telling you the boundary at the door is being kept. A doormat worn out, or missing, or stepped over is the dream noting that the small act of separating outside from inside has been abandoned, and the outside has started coming in unchanged.